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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Shorthanded at
Hello!
I would like to know, please, what the word "shorthand" means in the following context(N.B.A, web site):
Analysis: Duhon has been playing through back spasms and could use some time off, but with New York shorthanded at guard right now, that will not happen.
I´m guessing it means something like New York(team) is needing someone(player)at that position(guard) so they can´t afford letting him miss any match.
But even if I´m correct I can´t see a clear relation with the common meaning of "shorthand"(or at least, the one I have found at my dictionary).
Could it be a kind of expression?
Thank you very much in advance!
I would like to know, please, what the word "shorthand" means in the following context(N.B.A, web site):
Analysis: Duhon has been playing through back spasms and could use some time off, but with New York shorthanded at guard right now, that will not happen.
I´m guessing it means something like New York(team) is needing someone(player)at that position(guard) so they can´t afford letting him miss any match.
But even if I´m correct I can´t see a clear relation with the common meaning of "shorthand"(or at least, the one I have found at my dictionary).
Could it be a kind of expression?
Thank you very much in advance!
Top answer
shorthanded - short of hands (short of staff) - players in the position in this case.
- shorthanded - short of hands (short of staff) - players in the position in this case.
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shorthanded - short of hands (short of staff) - players in the position in this case.
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Thank you Dave Phillips!
It is a new word for me. I thought it was a verb(from "to shorthand")so that I looked up it at the dictionary. It comes that "shorthand" means something like "stenography". That´s why I didn´t understand its meaning in this context.
I should have looked up "shorthanded" which is an adjetive and has the meaning you have provide me with. In fact the dicti
It is a new word for me. I thought it was a verb(from "to shorthand")so that I looked up it at the dictionary. It comes that "shorthand" means something like "stenography". That´s why I didn´t understand its meaning in this context.
I should have looked up "shorthanded" which is an adjetive and has the meaning you have provide me with. In fact the dicti
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Shorthand is a type of writing that PA's use to take dictation so I understand your confusion. Glad I could help.
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I didn't realise that shorthand is listed as a verb. I would have thought it to be a noun. I'll check that out - interesting.
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Hi again!
I have expressed myself badly, sorry. I wanted to mean that I thought it could be a verb, a participle(on account of its ending in "ed"), that "shorthanded" came from the verb "to shorthand", which I imagined. But I found it as a noun, too, as you say, and with the meaning we have been arguing.
Thank you again. Regards.
I have expressed myself badly, sorry. I wanted to mean that I thought it could be a verb, a participle(on account of its ending in "ed"), that "shorthanded" came from the verb "to shorthand", which I imagined. But I found it as a noun, too, as you say, and with the meaning we have been arguing.
Thank you again. Regards.
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We haven't been arguing. You asked a question and I discussed the answer with you. Argue would mean that we disagree.
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