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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ground staff
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A terrible argument ensued, involving the passengers, crew and ground staff.
▪ Abberley, who had been head of the School's maintenance and ground staff since 1944.
▪ After it was extinguished by ground staff, a furious row then ensued between the referee and our lads.
▪ He went over to inspect the ground staff.
▪ The ground staff must have seen him, but what could they do?

Usage examples of "ground staff".

The vessel shuddered softly as ground staff evacuated the seal which clamped the enclosed walkway to the starship's hull.

The whole crew closed the aircraft down and left it in the hands of the ground staff for the night.

Probably worked her ticket in the cabin crew then opted for a ground staff post as soon as she'd snared a well-heeled oil exec.

In practice this meant he could go and get obliviously wrecked in the airport bars without fear of missing his plane, as the ground staff invariably reasoned that it was easier to make a few angry PA announcements or even send their most stern-faced and matronly stewardess to retrieve him than to unload the entire cargo hold and root through all the bags until they found his.

At which Trask thanked the ASI men (Australian Special Intelligence), who headed back to the airstrip to connect with incoming Chopper Two's military commanders and three more members of Branch ground staff.

There were some pilots and one or two of the ground staff in a group outside the door of Rohmhild's quarters and an ambulance Was nosing in.

At Paris, there was a thirty-five minute stop-over to let people on rnd off and give the Israeli Airline ground staff time to count the wheels.

The only signals going directly to Daniel were those of the Chiefs of Rig and Ship, First Lieutenant Chewning at his station in the Battle Direction Center astern, and the ground staff controlling the winches.