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Definition staff

Etymology 1

From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.

Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced from German Stab.

Noun

staff (countable and uncountable, plural staffs or staves or staff)

  1. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
  2. (music, plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
  3. (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
  4. (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
  5. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
  6. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
  7. (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
  8. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
  9. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
  10. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
  11. (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.
Verb

staff (third-person singular simple present staffs, present participle staffing, simple past and past participle staffed)

  1. (transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

Etymology 2

Noun

staff

  1. Misspelling of staph.

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