{
  "id": "staff.people",
  "term": "staff",
  "sense": "people",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "staff",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "people who do work for a company",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "company.economic",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "people do work for a company together and be a group",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective employment",
      "shared organizational role",
      "group identity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Amazon employed 1.5 million people to manage warehouses, deliveries, and cloud services.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 13 mission succeeded because NASA's ground staff coordinated repairs under real-time constraints.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Nurses at France's Bichat Hospital maintained patient care during the 2003 heatwave, preventing system collapse.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "groups.collection",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "staff",
    "staffed",
    "staffing",
    "staffs"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-staff.people"
}