Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

upstaff

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: up-staff
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To hire additional employees, thereby increasing the size of the workforce.

Example Sentences

"Samsung is planning to upstaff and move its West Coast offices, currently located in Orange County, to Century City."
"Mr. Armes said “a decision by the ministry to upstaff the service it operates in Brampton was a key factor” in the negotiators’ decision to recommend the new offer."
"“I see merit in upstaffing Thea,” Gideon said."
"Meanwhile, David and I upstaffed the spare and pulled two people out of a rollover at the Minnewanka Interchange."

Inflected Forms

upstaffs (present, singular) upstaffing (participle, present) upstaffed (participle, past) upstaffed (past)

Questions

What does upstaff mean?: To hire additional employees, thereby increasing the size of the workforce.

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