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undermanned en · ADJ

Meanings

  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:

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most undermanned Degree=Sup lexicographic
more undermanned Degree=Cmp lexicographic

undermanned en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of underman
    form of underman