overstretchedadjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈstretʃt/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈstretʃt/not having enough money, people, equipment, etc.:
Hospitals are overstretched, and patients are not getting the treatment they need.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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