Definition of "understaff" []

• To supply with fewer employees than required: Management was careful not to understaff the agency. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "What we have allowed DEP to do is to terribly understaff this permitting process, he said."
• "It just seems there has to be more to his refusal of this bill than thinking it would understaff the military."
• "Given the use of funds in the past eight years to wage war, invade privacy, understaff the EPA, and make it harder, not easier, for people to get the health care or education they need, we owe it to ourselves and to our children to do something today."