staff
IPA: stˈæf
noun
- (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
- (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
- (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
- (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
- A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
- A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
- A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
- (rail transport, archaic) A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
- Misspelling of staph. [Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.]
verb
- (transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
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