What's the difference between undercrewed and undermanned?
Undercrewed
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Undermanned
Definition:
(a.) Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.
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(1) "In my experience, OSHA is overloaded and undermanned.
(2) Possession of a mere handful of marijuana has for decades clogged Jamaican courts with petty cases and distracted an undermanned police force from tackling the crime cartels pushing drugs and guns.
(3) "The SIB [the Special Investigations Branch of the Royal Military Police] are not awfully well equipped in relation to the latest technology and they are undermanned: you put all that together and it is not surprising that they are not achieving the results that you would expect them to.
(4) One industrial chemicals expert told the Guardian that he was not surprised by the lack of visits, adding that in the industry it was well known that the OSHA was “overworked and undermanned”.
(5) Three years later in 2009, the undermanned and poorly led British force had been fought to a standstill.
(6) An industrial chemicals expert with 35 years' experience in the field told the Guardian that the lack of inspections was to expected, given that OSHA was severely "undermanned and overloaded".
(7) The committee's chairman, James Arbuthnot, said: "Look at the areas where the armed forces are undermanned.
(8) But the UN-AU force, costing $1.5bn a year, has been criticised as undermanned and underequipped for its primarily role of protecting civilians .
(9) That meant the striker had to leave the pitch, leaving the team, who were already down to 10 men after the dismissal of Thibaut Courtois, undermanned and exposed to a Swansea break.
(10) Asked if police were undermanned, he said: "We kept a very dignified presence at the vigil [by Duggan's family]; there was no indication that there would be anything other than a peaceful demonstration.
(11) At half-time an occasion that so often feels as though it never really got going felt as though it was all but over, with City not so much uninterested as undermanned and undercooked.
(12) Thus, only marginal support for Barker's undermanning hypothesis was found.
(13) Paolucci said he had tripled the number of guards to handle the crowds, but last week one guard, who declined to be named, said the chapel was undermanned.
(14) The manager, so often castigated for the conservatism of his team's style, was overcome by the dream of obliterating Didier Deschamps' undermanned side when it was ostensibly vulnerable.
(15) However we have also expressed our own concerns about possible undermanning within strip products and in Port Talbot in particular.
(16) Suddenly underpowered in the scrum and undermanned in defence, it was apparent that Wales would depend for any chance of recovery on the ability of Phillips, Roberts, Toby Faletau and George North, their most powerful ball-carriers, to drive holes in the French cover.
(17) Perhaps Villa were undermanned at the back – Ron Vlaar was unavailable again with a calf injury and Nathan Baker, outstanding at Anfield a week ago, was one of several home players to fall victim to a virus – yet that should not detract from the quality of the first two Arsenal goals.
(18) "The pressure on what remained an undermanned force meant that the British lacked the presence and tactical patience to develop ties in most communities, and still had to rely on artillery and air power to get out of trouble."
(19) Instead, they relied on the corrupt, poorly paid, underqualified, undermanned local authorities.
(20) Ronaldo scored them both against the undermanned defence, first heading home Isco’s cross after 36 minutes before he acrobatically dived to stab in a ball flicked on by Javier Hernández a minute later.