short-staffed no Dicionário de Espanhol-Inglês da Oxford

Traduções para short-staffed no dicionário inglês»Espanhol

short-staffed [americ, Brit ʃɔːtˈstɑːft] ADJ

they/we were short-staffed

les/nos faltaba personal

they/we were short-staffed

no tenían/no teníamos personal suficiente

Traduções para short-staffed no dicionário Espanhol»inglês

personal² SUBST m

1. personal (de una fábrica, empresa):

personal

personnel pl

personal

staff sing or pl

estamos escasos de personal

we're short-staffed

intentan aumentar la producción con el mismo personal

they are trying to increase production with the same number of staff o with the same workforce

2. personal Esp coloq, humor (gente):

personal

people

¡cuánto personal hay en la calle!

what a lot of people there are in the street!

saca unas copas para el personal

get some glasses out for everyone o for people

escaso (escasa) ADJ

1. escaso (poco, limitado):

un país de escasos recursos económicos

a country with limited o scant o slender economic resources

ante un público escaso

in front of a small audience

escasas posibilidades de éxito

slim o slender chances of success

escasas posibilidades de éxito

little chance of success

la visibilidad en la zona del aeropuerto es escasa

there is poor o limited visibility around the airport

la comida resultó escasa

there wasn't enough food

obras de escasa calidad

works of mediocre quality

una persona de escasa inteligencia

a person of limited intelligence

mis conocimientos sobre este tema son escasos

my knowledge of this subject is limited

2. escaso (en expresiones de medida, peso):

falta un mes escaso para que llegue

there's barely o scarcely a month to go before it arrives

está a una distancia de cinco kilómetros escasos

it's barely o scarcely five kilometers away

pesa un kilo escaso

it weighs barely o scarcely a kilo

a escasos tres días/dos meses lat-amer

barely three days/two months away

se despertó luego de escasas tres horas de sueño lat-amer

she awoke having slept for barely three hours

3. escaso (falto):

escaso de algo

short of sth

de momento ando escaso de dinero

I'm a little o a bit short of money at the moment

de momento ando escaso de dinero

money's a bit scarce o tight at the moment

andamos escasos de personal

we're short-staffed

short-staffed no Dicionário PONS

Traduções para short-staffed no dicionário inglês»Espanhol

short-staffed ADJ

short-staffed

falto, -a de personal

Exemplos unilingues (não verificados pela redação)

inglês

My understanding is that my hospital is short-staffed in most if not all departments.

www.independent.co.uk

The public deserves justice, not a short-staffed, hobbled court that may find itself ideologically split on 4-4 lines, unable to adjudicate pressing issues.

www.thestar.com

But so far they have signed up just five out of a minimum of ten needed -- and many of these other trusts are themselves short-staffed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Parents told how wards were so short-staffed that they were forced to take over most of the care of desperately sick children recovering from surgery.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Being as short-staffed as we are already, the staff can better spend their time on quality customer service.

www.nydailynews.com

We are constantly short-staffed because we don't have cover for annual leave and the remaining staff are always having to do more.

www.stuff.co.nz

They are allowed to skip to the good parts, but it's still a lot of time in a police department that's severely short-staffed and overburdened.

www.kunc.org

Credit to the guys, we were a little short-staffed.

www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com

Even the mum who'd opted for a home birth was told when her contractions started there was no homebirth midwives available due to being short-staffed.

www.independent.co.uk

He's been short-staffed in recent years, he said, and it's hard to hire new employees.

www.inforum.com