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to staff

to staff

54 3.3
To provide workers for a place or work in a particular job
  • verb
  • /stæf/
translation icon : 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

172 5.2

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

90 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
14 3.5

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

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

half-staff
  • Formal
7 7.1

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

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

5 1.1

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

4 2.5

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

general staff
  • Specialized
3 4.4

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

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

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

staff of life
  • Archaic
2 3.7

A basic bread people eat as a main food

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

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

staff office
  • Formal
1 3.1

A department that hires, trains, and manages employees

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
54 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.