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🧑‍💼 To hire again 🔄 To reassign jobs
to restaff

to restaff

1 5.7
Hire new people to replace or add staff in a team
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈstæf/
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  • After the budget cuts, the organization had to restaff to ensure all critical roles were filled.

Examples

  • That, and we're being forced to restaff.

    Airheads (1994)

  • The company decided to restaff after several employees left for new jobs.

  • We need to restaff the marketing team to improve our outreach efforts.

Synonyms

to backfill
vsto restaff
  • Jargon
1 4.8

To fill an open job by hiring or assigning another person

covers hiring to replace add or strengthen staff rather than only filling vacancies

Antonyms

to lay off
87 3.3

Stop employing someone because the company cannot afford them, not because of bad work

How Extensive

to overhaul
35 4.6
to restaff
1 5.7
to recruit
277 3.2
to replace
∞ 1.8

Surface Forms

restaff infinitive
restaffed past
restaffed past participle
restaffing present participle
restaffs third person singular

Morphology

restaff = staff (transparent) = re + staff

This is a standard and readily understandable use of re- meaning 'again' with the verb 'staff'.

Etymology

Restaff combines re- meaning 'again' and staff meaning 'a group of workers', so it literally means to 'staff again', often by hiring new people to replace or add to the team. So, to restaff a department is to bring in new employees to fill or strengthen the staff.