Definitions for staff

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staff staff

Spelling: [staf, stahf]

IPA: /stæf, stɑf/

Staff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in staff (affst).

Definitions for staff

noun

1. a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
2. a group of assistants to a manager, superintendent, or executive.
3. a member of a staff.
4. Military. a body of officers without command authority, appointed to assist a commanding officer. the parts of any army concerned with administrative matters, planning, etc., rather than with actual participation in combat.
5. those members of an organization serving only in an auxiliary or advisory capacity on a given project. Compare line1 (def 38).
6. a stick, pole, or rod for aid in walking or climbing, for use as a weapon, etc.
7. a rod or wand serving as a symbol of office or authority, as a crozier, baton, truncheon, or mace.
8. a pole on which a flag is hung or displayed.
9. something that supports or sustains.
10. Also, stave. Music. a set of horizontal lines, now five in number, with the corresponding four spaces between them, on which music is written.
11. Archaic. the shaft of a spear, lance, etc.
12. a composition of plaster and fibrous material used for a temporary finish and in ornamental work, as on exposition buildings.

adjective

1. of or relating to a military or organizational staff:
2. (of a professional person) employed on the staff of a corporation, publication, institution, or the like rather than being self-employed or practicing privately:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a staff of assistants or workers:
2. to serve on the staff of.
3. to send to a staff for study or further work (often followed by out):

verb (used without object)

1. to hire employees, as for a new office or project (sometimes followed by up):

Origin of staff

before 900; Middle English staf (noun), Old English stæf; cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Old Norse stafr staff, Sanskrit stabh- support

Examples for staff

The staff had fallen into the way of attending Wilson's operations.

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

According to some rumors, Goya was once on staff before his fame as a Spanish painter.

The staff went hopelessly down the stairs to the smoking-room, and smoked.

They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.

Behold me with staff and scrip, footing it merrily in the Land of Pardons.

The hospital did not approve of engagements between nurses and the staff.

The youth pondered, and drew a plan amongst the rushes with the point of his staff.

He would talk to Mecallari and the staff about what was of paramount importance to him, his two sons.

You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.