staff
noun
a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
had staffed
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past perfectof staff.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Eight workers in each dorm had staffed eight-hour shifts, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
Like their global peers, many Canadian investment banks had staffed up during the pandemic only to see dealmaking slow last year.
From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023
In May, the company acknowledged that it had staffed up too quickly at its warehouses to keep pace with demand, which by then was cooling.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022
Mark Lorenzen, chief of the Ventura County Fire Department said his team had staffed up by 87 percent before a fire broke out in December and eventually became the largest in state history.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2018
By 1951, the Propeller Research Tunnel was declared obsolete and demolished, and the engineers that had staffed it were left to find a new specialty or retire.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
