staff
/stɑːf/ sustantivo A2En español: bastón, báculo, varas, pauta
- 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 y expresiones
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“It is a great honor to me,” returned Monte Cristo, “to be thus, on the first day of my arrival in Paris, brought in contact with a man whose merit equals his reputation, and to whom fortune has for once been equitable, but has she not still on the plains of Mitidja, or in the mountains of Atlas, a marshal’s staff to offer you?”
Have we any Italians on the staff?
“Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician—little more than a senior student.
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