| 单词 | to staff out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto staff out 3. transitive. North American (usually in political contexts). to staff out: to send out (a proposal or other piece of work) to staff for consultation or revision. Π 1961 3rd Suppl. Appropriation Bill: Hearings before Comm. on Appropriations (U.S. Senate 87th Congr. 1st Sess.) 354 If in their opinion after they have staffed it out there is adverse impact on the economy, then the loan does not go through. 1963 Virginia Q. Rev. 39 542 A prediction of what the American Government would decide to do in a contingency that probably had not been ‘staffed out’ in advance. 2003 New Yorker 13 Jan. 27/3 One thing it was not was the product of careful policy deliberation. It had not been, as they say, staffed out. 2008 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 1 Oct. a23 So the question that obviously arises is, did he staff it out, and if so who was his speechwriter at the time? < as lemmas |
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