staff
noun
a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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My brother, you have probably heard that I am staffing with a caravan in a few days for Mecca.
From The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew