0 past simple and past participle of staff
1 to be or provide the people who work for an organization:
Many charity shops in Britain are staffed by/with volunteers.
The clinics were staffed by nurses and voluntary workers, and supervised by a public health nurse.
Before 1963 there was no full-time manager, administrative duties being handled by a secretary and volunteers who staffed the headquarters and the clinics.
While there may be possibilities for such settings to provide a service if properly staffed and structured, there has been no evaluative work.
It is clear that in later periods few weaving establishments with as many as four looms were staffed entirely by family labour.
The prime minister created a number of high-level policy boards, staffed only with chamber of commerce representatives, to hammer out resolution schemes.
It is mostly staffed by senior civil servants from national ministries.
In each case, opponents of the reforms that had been supported by the preceding administrations staffed the succeeding administrations.
While the system remained staffed by amateurs it failed to survive the pressure of war and was replaced by a professional and centralized system.
