to staff
- verb
- /stæf/
- 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.
- If you're looking for for work or crew, staff me up Mandy.
- In other words, they don't send teams of people to, to staff treatment centers.
- And then it become becomes very, very difficult to to staff the schools.
- But because we have that there and we are step, you know, making it staffed all all the time.
- They have just so much to do or Yeah, it it really is being staffed to handle the review process.
- I've known writers to write web series and from that get staffed.
- So when she showed them both those scripts, she got staffed.
- And so we did a great job, I think, as an underdog campaign, very leanly staffed.
- And this is an organization literally staffed by phone hackers, so it's quite a bizarre thing.
- For one, that would be an enormous operation where First off, you'd have to staff it and man it.
- You have to pay a subscription fee with a heavy cancellation fee that drives guaranteed revenue for me so I can staff against it.
Examples
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Listen, we're staffing up right now, and...
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And by the way, we man the, we staff the, the blood services organization, we have observers there.
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And then it become becomes very, very difficult to to staff the schools.
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Chicago alone has been staffed up with hundreds of people for months.
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No, we're pretty well-staffed at the moment.
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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
A senior military officer who leads a branch and manages its operations and administration
A group of top military leaders who advise the President of the United States
- Specialized
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
- Formal
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
- Specialized
A group of senior officers who help a leader plan and run military operations
- Specialized
A person in the military who helps a commander plan and manage operations
People in the military who work in the main military office to plan and manage activities
- Specialized
A desert shrub with thin spiny branches and bright red flowers after rain
- Specialized
Five lines that show musical notes above middle C, used for violin or right-hand piano
How Staffed
Surface Forms
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.