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short-staff

short-staff verb: to employ insufficient staff in (a facility).

Verb

short-staff (third-person singular simple present short-staffs, present participle short-staffing, simple past and past participle short-staffed)

  1. To employ insufficient staff in (a facility)

Forms of short-staff

third-person singular presentshort-staffs
present participleshort-staffing
past participleshort-staffed
pastshort-staffed

Questions about short-staff

What does short-staff mean?
Short-staff means to employ insufficient staff in (a facility).
What part of speech is short-staff?
Short-staff is a verb.
What is the past tense of short-staff?
The past tense of short-staff is short-staffed.

Words near short-staff in the dictionary

  1. short-sleeper
  2. short-sleepers
  3. short-sleeved
  4. short-sold
  5. short-spoken
  6. short-staff
  7. short-staffed
  8. short-staffing
  9. short-staffs
  10. short-stop
  11. short-stopped

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