short-staffed

IPA/ˌʃɔːt ˈstɑːft/
IPA/ˌʃɔːrt ˈstæft/

short-staffed — 形容詞

1. not having enough workers or employees to do all the work that needs to be done

1.形容詞B2
釋義

人手不足

員工人數不夠，無法應付工作量

not having enough workers or employees to do all the work that needs to be done — for example, a restaurant where the cooks and waiters together are too few to serve all the customers, or a hospital ward that cannot give proper care because nurses are missing.

例句

The hospital ward was short-staffed last night, so the nurses worked double shifts.

昨晚醫院病房人手不足，護理師只好輪值雙倍班。

be + short-staffed (predicative)

Paloma struggled to keep the café running during the busy lunch hour because she was short-staffed.

午餐尖峰時段人手不足，Paloma 一個人很難撐起咖啡廳的營運。

feel / be short-staffed (reason clause)

常見搭配
  • chronically short-staffed
  • severely short-staffed
  • constantly short-staffed
  • short-staffed department
  • short-staffed ward
  • short-staffed team
  • short-staffed office
  • short-staffed kitchen
同義詞
  • understaffed

    more formal; the standard term in official reports and business writing

  • short-handed

    more casual; also implies a shortage of helpers or physical workers rather than professional staff

反義詞

文法句型

be + short-staffed

remain + short-staffed

feel + short-staffed

short-staffed + noun

用法筆記

Used almost exclusively in workplace or service contexts. The word is commonly found in predicative position (be short-staffed, feel short-staffed) but also occurs attributively before nouns describing organizations or teams.

常見錯誤

The company is short-staffing this month.
The company is short-staffed this month.
short-staffed is an adjective, not a verb; do not add -ing.
We are short of staff.' (intended meaning: not enough workers)
We are short-staffed.
'short of staff' is also correct, but 'short-staffed' is the single compound adjective; the two forms are not interchangeable in all sentence positions.

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常用片語

  • chronically short-staffed
  • constantly short-staffed
  • badly short-staffed