shorthand.html - {adj.} Understaffed; short on workers. * /With several employees gone for the holiday weekend and two dozen people in line, the rent-a-car agency suddenly found itself terribly shorthanded./

shorthand.html - n.
1 (often attrib.) a method of rapid writing in abbreviations and symbols esp. for taking dictation.
2 an abbreviated or symbolic mode of expression.

shorthand typist Brit. a typist qualified to take and transcribe shorthand.

shorthand.html - n.
1 an animal of a breed of cattle with short horns.
2 this breed.

shorthand.html - See: CAUGHT SHORT, FALL SHORT, FOR SHORT, IN BRIEF or IN SHORT, IN SHORT ORDER, IN SHORT SUPPLY, MAKE SHORT WORK OF, RUN SHORT, SELL SHORT, THE LONG AND THE SHORT.

shorthand.html - {n.} A short distance; a short trip. * /The Scoutmaster said that it was just a short haul to the lake./ * /The man from the moving company said they did not make short hauls, so we hired a truck to move our furniture three blocks to our new house./ Contrast: LONG HAUL.

shorthand.html - {adj.} Brief and to the point. * /Henry's note to his father was short and sweet. He wrote, "Dear Dad, please send me $5. Love, Henry."/