Definitions for Staffs

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Staffs staff

Spelling: [staf, stahf]

IPA: /stæf, stɑf/

Staffs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Staffs (affsst).

Definitions for Staffs

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.
13. a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.

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 Staffs

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

Examples for Staffs

I suppose Hollywood stars must consent to be godparents to a lot of the children of their staffs.

Scouts should make their own staffs whenever it is possible for them to secure the lumber.

There were also flags on staffs stuck about which might be taken.

His staff assignments include the Office of Combating Terrorism, National Security Council and the USSOCOM and Navy staffs.

In France and Germany, many companies employ graphologists on their staffs.

Many of them had staffs, and all were bent nigh double under their burdens.

If we could break the board in two in the middle, it would make two staffs for us.

Romney purports to like 30 Rock, but I don't believe anything released by staffs in these let's-humanize-our-guy press releases.

Nor could any of the staffs of the neighboring hotels or restaurants assist him.

He gets his national show, staffs up with a crew that sings proudly of not being "Mexican, gay, or black."