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staff

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Word definitions for staff in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staff \Staff\ (st[.a]f), n.; pl. Staves (st[=a]vz or st[aum]vz; 277) or Staffs (st[.a]fs) in senses 1-9, Staffs in senses 10, 1 [AS. st[ae]f a staff; akin to LG. & D. staf, OFries. stef, G. stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, ...

Usage examples of staff.

And because of the aberration of the Dutch and Belgians for neutrality there had been no staff consultations by which the defenders could pool their plans and resources to the best advantage.

L staff whose job was to check identifications before allowing admittance to the ball.

Chief of Staff of the school, an old air wolf who had been an airman as far back as the Civil War, was fond of saying.

Staff Sergeant Alphonse Marks, Lieutenant Charles Akers, and Lieutenant Megan Swigart.

The largest of those was taller than Alayne, with iron bands girding its dark brown staves.

Sometimes the wolves would slink into the Lesser Town and attack the almsfolk foraging for scraps in the middens, and sometimes an almsman would be discovered dead in the snow, half naked and frozen stiff, still clutching his staff, looking like a statue toppled from its pedestal.

Trent has arranged for Amaryllis to masquerade as a member of the catering staff at the reception.

But, in this respect, the Hallichek Ambassadress and her Embassy staff were sorely hampered.

Its authors, Heinz van Foerster, Patricia Mora and Lawrence Amiot, were members of the staff of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

A few of his staff officers almost certainly spoke English as their second tongue, but the Bedouins, despite their Greater Arabian ancestry, had forgotten it generations ago.

German general staff, on the other hand, requested that Hungarian Army units should occupy the southern slopes of the Carpathians, which had been given at the Second Viennese Arbitrage to Rumania.

Staff members of the arbitration service or panel members with more general backgrounds may also be available.

But his heart sped up again in the tunnel that joined the armory to the staff room.

They had no tanks or armoured cars, and neither the workshops to make and maintain them nor the trained men and staffs to handle them.

I shall make your crutch your staff of office and see the armourers about a blade myself.