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English
Pronunciation
Verb
undermanned
- simple past and past participle of underman
Adjective
undermanned (comparative more undermanned, superlative most undermanned)
- Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9: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.