set up one's staff

English

Alternative forms

• put down one's staff
• put up one's staff
• set down one's staff

Verb

set up one's staff (third-person singular simple present sets up one's staff, present participle setting up one's staff, simple past and past participle set up one's staff)

1. (obsolete, idiomatic) To take up one's residence; to start to live in a certain place

References

• “staff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.