[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

short-handed \short`-hand"ed\, a.
   short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or
   helpers.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

underhanded \un"derhand`ed\, a.
   1. underhand; clandestine.
      1913 webster

   2. insufficiently provided with hands or workers;
      short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense,
      short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred
      term.
      1913 webster +jg

            norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is
            much underhanded now.                 --coleridge.
      1913 webster
see also:
short-handed understaffed 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

short-handed
     adj : inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're
           rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and
           understaffed hospitals" syn: short-staffed, undermanned,
            understaffed
see also:
short-staffed undermanned understaffed 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

27 moby thesaurus words for "shorthanded":
   bare-handed, beggarly, empty-handed, famished, half-starved,
   ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
   on short commons, pauperized, poor, short, starved, starveling,
   starving, underfed, underhanded, undermanned, undernourished,
   understaffed, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied,
   wanting

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