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undermanned

undermanned is the simple past and past participle of underman.

Meaning of underman

Verb

underman (third-person singular simple present undermans, present participle undermanning, simple past and past participle undermanned)

  1. To fail to provide with enough workers or crew.

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Adjective

undermanned (comparative more undermanned, superlative most undermanned)

  1. Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
    • Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9

Forms of undermanned

comparativemore undermanned
superlativemost undermanned

Words that rhyme with undermanned

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Questions about undermanned

What does undermanned mean?
Undermanned means insufficiently manned; understaffed.
What is undermanned the simple past and past participle of?
Undermanned is the simple past and past participle of underman.
What part of speech is undermanned?
Undermanned is an adjective.

Words near undermanned in the dictionary

  1. undermanagement
  2. undermanager
  3. undermanagers
  4. undermanages
  5. undermanaging
  6. undermanned
  7. undermanning
  8. undermans
  9. undermargin
  10. undermargined
  11. undermargining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undermanned (page history and authors); underman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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