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Meaning staff meaning

What does staff mean?
Definitions in simple English

staff Noun

— The employees of a company. — A long, straight stick that is mostly used to help people walk and is sometimes used in martial arts. — A staff is five lines that music is written on.

staff Verb

— When you staff a business, you provide them with employees.

staff

— noun personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task the hospital has an excellent nursing staff the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions — verb provide with staff This position is not always staffed — noun a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose he walked with the help of a wooden staff — noun the body of teachers and administrators at a school the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university — noun building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration — noun (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written — noun a rod carried as a symbol — verb serve on the staff of The two men staff the reception desk

Synonyms staff synonyms

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staff English » English

stick personnel rod cane pole walking stick stave club cudgel shaft crew baton wand crutch bar man work force team stake spar mace headquarters walking-stick truncheon support handle faculty employees crook staff member scepter post officer membership lathi human resources employee bludgeon bat workforce workers worker verge strut staff officer spear sceptre perch manpower leg

Topics staff topics

What do people use staff to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Music

Compose music
Daily life

Manage a house

Conjugation staff conjugation

How do you conjugate staff?

staff · verb

Examples staff examples

How do I use staff in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The old man leaned on his staff.
Not all of the staff was present.
Is the staff meeting held on Monday?
I get along well with all the staff.
A lot of companies have pared their staff down to a minimum.
The entire sales staff has worked around the clock for a week.
Do you think she can handle her staff?
They contacted the station staff but the man had left the area and gone out through the ticket barrier.
Entry is strictly for staff only.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
The manager called an urgent staff meeting.
How many staff members filed to change departments?
We have a good negotiator on the staff.
The staff exchanged opinions in the meeting.
He is a new addition to the teaching staff.
We need many additions to our staff.
I speak French to my staff.
The boss spoke in a condescending tone when addressing the female staff members.

Movie subtitles

Changing rooms! Staff changing rooms.
Staff changing rooms - on the right.
Member of staff.
Adding to that, that we believe it may be a member of staff.
TANNOY: 'Will all staff please return to their stations?
Could you fast-bleep Trauma theatre staff urgently, please.
There are HUNDREDS of members of staff whose careers, livelihoods and families depend on the success of this unit.
That's what makes me so popular with the staff.
Everyone, Dr. Jeremy Bishop, our newest gen-surg on staff.
They had more lawyers on staff than doctors.
I was at the pharmacy holding the fort so my staff could get to enjoy it.
Hospital accommodation is for staff only, Dr Walker.
Then maybe you need to supervise your staff.
Look, I know how to contact the entire editorial staff on the weekends.
My chief of staff, who's retired, is now the mayor of Toulon.
He's been on staff at his current high school for the last 12 years, diligent and had a great work ethic.
The Party organized the uprising staff.
You speak on behalf of the Staff!
To strengthen ties with the population the chief of occupation and his wife with the staff are going to visit a big monastery.
Attached to a chief of staff of our own army.
Colonel McGregor I welcome you and your staff to my humble home.
Colonel McGregor, would you and your staff join me in a pipe of friendship?
Oh my dear, it's as plain as a pike's staff.
Last night, those phone calls, causing me to tell the chief of staff to go back to the zoo.
Judy, why don't you make him chief of staff.
This is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, your new chief of staff.
Doctor, I'm happy to welcome you as chief of staff.
If you'll excuse me, I'll go and bring in the rest of the staff.
IS WHY THE REST OF OUR STAFF ISN'T!
Volunteers for the future generals' staff.
No, the general's staff's been over this country with a rake.
Staff Sergeant, see about this officer's train, will you?
Won't the staff sergeant do?
Call the staff for a meeting at 3:00.
You don't know how bucked up the staff is about this.
The staff member who first undertakes the application of new methods in surgery deliberately exposes his hospital to legal and himself to criminal prosecution.
The whole staff respects you.
And if we stay here in the train staff compartment. lt's nice too.
It was a present from my staff when I left London.

News and current affairs

Only after the vote did the Chief of Staff publicly endorse the original proposal to bring in American troops.
So he knew what was wrong and appreciated that it had to be fixed carefully and patiently, by engaging the staff rather than intimidating them.
Two years ago, Prof. Ibrahim, together with practically all of the Ibn-Khaldun Institute staff, were arrested and put on trial before a State Security Court on trumped up charges.
Twenty-seven of the Institute's staff members also received jail sentences, and the Institute is now practically destroyed.
A nominee for the National Institutes of Health's Muscular Dystrophy Research Coordinating Committee told of being vetted by a White House staff member.
As we have seen, the White House built its case for war on a highly selective dossier of evidence, and Bush made statements about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Africa that he and his staff knew to be highly doubtful, if not false.
Bush and his staff had good reason to believe that this was not true.
This would make the IMF staff more cognizant of the value of local knowledge relative to theoretical expertise.
This move would likely face considerable resistance from staff who have gotten used to the perks of Washington, DC.
These practices can have a positive impact on profits through increased productivity, lower staff turnover, greater amenability to change, more innovation, and better, more reliable output.
The other has reportedly been sent to the police staff school for advanced training.
The Bank's staff is highly professional, and would accomplish much more if freed from the dominance of narrow US interests and viewpoints.
Despite the excellence of its staff, the Bank has not been strategic or agile enough to be an effective agent of change.
There are differences, too, in the relationship between policymakers and their staff, which also influences a central bank's independence.
Last week, IMF staff formally recommended adding the renminbi to the basket of currencies that determines the value of its so-called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
Thirty African governments have ratified the ICC's governing statute, and several of the Court's 18 judges hail from Africa, as does a substantial portion of its staff.
They monitored and sanctioned the recruitment of consultants that conducted the studies related to these projects, as well as the expatriate staff involved in their execution.
Substantial public rescue funds have reportedly been siphoned off to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and staff bonuses for purposes unrelated to protecting public interests.
Even if it does begin to function, the BRICS lack what gives development banks, and the World Bank in particular, legitimacy and weight: a staff composed mostly of dedicated experts who are among the world's best.
But it is the president's staff who guide the outcome and determines the next steps.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently defined America's colossal fiscal deficits as the biggest threat to its national security.

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