staff
/stɑːf/ noun A2- A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
- A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
- People employed by a business or other organisation. · The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.· The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paid staff.
- A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
- A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office. · a constable's staff
- A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
Plural staffs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“You look like a general who is planning a battle with his chief of the staff.”
“‘You must know,’ said he, ‘that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for it is a rambling old place, and takes a good deal of looking after.
The garden and the stables of course have a separate staff.
It was at this time that he was sought out by Professor Moriarty, to whom for a time he was chief of the staff.
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