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▸ noun: (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
▸ noun: (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
▸ noun: (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
▸ noun: A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
▸ noun: A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
▸ noun: (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
▸ noun: A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
▸ noun: (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
▸ noun: (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
▸ noun: Misspelling of staph. [Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.]
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stave,
faculty,
personnel,
staffer,
employee,
manager,
receptionist,
assistant,
team,
member,
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medical,
professional,
general,
administrative,
senior,
technical,
entire,
permanent,
academic,
time,
clerical
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