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to staff

to staff

58 3.3
To provide workers for a place or work in a particular job
  • verb
  • /stæf/
: dotar de personal
  • Despite numerous difficulties, Taipei has provided doctors and nurses to staff many Saudi hospitals.
  • staff the center
  • fully staffed
  • staff and fund

If you're looking for for work or crew, staff me up Mandy.

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Examples

  • Listen, we're staffing up right now, and...

  • And by the way, we man the, we staff the, the blood services organization, we have observers there.

  • And then it become becomes very, very difficult to to staff the schools.

  • Chicago alone has been staffed up with hundreds of people for months.

  • No, we're pretty well-staffed at the moment.

  • In this school district, all elementary libraries are staffed by only one person.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Flynn's task force was the only place to find the people needed to staff additional investigative units.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The park would have international funding and be staffed by Miskito people from the nearby coastal communities.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Central Advising consists of satellite advising centers staffed by a team of professional academic advisors.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The company plans to staff its new branch with experienced professionals to ensure high-quality service.

Compounds

287 5.2

A senior military officer who leads a branch and manages its operations and administration

88 1.5

A person who works for an organization

A group of top military leaders who advise the President of the United States

staff sergeant
  • Specialized
42 3.5

A military rank in the United States Army, Marines, or Air Force above corporal and below sergeant first class

half-staff
  • Formal
8 7.1

A position partway down a flagpole where a flag flies to show respect after a death

general staff
  • Specialized
8 4.4

A group of senior officers who help a leader plan and run military operations

7 1.1

People who work in an office doing jobs like answering phones and filing papers

A group of employees who protect people, property and information from theft and damage

A senior doctor who leads the hospital doctors and makes sure medical care is safe

5 2.5

People who work for a company and sell its products or services

People who work at a place doing cleaning, fixing and helping customers

People who work on studies and experiments at a university or lab

staff officer
  • Specialized
3 6.1

A person in the military who helps a commander plan and manage operations

A group of workers who fix and look after buildings and equipment

staff office
  • Formal
2 3.1

A department that hires, trains, and manages employees

staff of life
  • Archaic
2 3.7

A basic bread people eat as a main food

People in the military who work in the main military office to plan and manage activities

7.8

People who answer users' questions and fix computer problems for them

Jacob's staff
  • Specialized
9.9

A desert shrub with thin spiny branches and bright red flowers after rain

treble staff
  • Specialized
7.4

Five lines that show musical notes above middle C, used for violin or right-hand piano

staff line
  • Specialized
5.8

A horizontal line in written music that shows how high or low a note is

staff tree
  • Specialized
9.9

A small climbing tree with bright berries that wraps around fences

staff vine
  • Specialized
9.9

A climbing shrub with yellow seed pods that show bright red seeds

staff-tree family
  • Specialized
9.9

A family of trees, shrubs, and vines with bright-colored fruits

How Staffed

overstaffed
1 4.1
to staff
58 3.3

Surface Forms

staff infinitive
staffed past
staffed past participle
staffing present participle
staffs third person singular

Etymology

Staff as a verb comes from the noun staff (the people who 'support' a place), so to 'staff' somewhere is to give it the people who will 'support' its work.