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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
staffer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congressional
▪ Inc., meeting with industry CEOs and other attorneys and serving as a resource for congressional staffers and reporters.
■ VERB
go
▪ Slipshod administration caused several staffers to go for months without receiving their salaries, while running up thousands of dollars in advances.
say
▪ She was asked to do the work, Brezzo said, because museum staffers who could have were busy with other assignments.
▪ She said Republican staffers earlier this week broke into Democrats' computer systems, destroying programs and documents worth thousands of dollars.
▪ He said no Republican staffers had reviewed them as yet.
▪ He also said he would order staffers to intensify efforts to find more wells.
work
▪ Congressional staffers who want to work on their bosses' campaigns must use vacation time.
▪ Ten staffers work directly for the Dodgers in planning community relations and coordinating this year's team-wide efforts.
▪ Me, and all the other lawyers, economists, and staffers who would work in the marble palaces.
▪ Several dozen staffers worked in administration and finance, raising the ever-growing sums needed to keep the machine running.
▪ Pampered technical and content staffers may resist working anywhere other than near their favorite coffee shops or blues clubs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He had been a staffer in George Bush's administration.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A secretariat staffer involved with the latter says multinational industry should police itself.
▪ And so what if the first lady arranged to have the travel staffers fired?
▪ Buchanan has only $ 2 million in the bank and only two paid campaign staffers in South Carolina.
▪ Cruz also said Muni planned to hire at least 12 additional safety staffers, bringing the total to 72.
▪ His openness is counter-cultural in these times of limited access, control-freak staffers, and ubiquitous security details.
▪ Polgar was not the only committee staffer with glaring conflicts of interest.
▪ Some staffers have been trained to take on additional law-enforcement roles, Diller says.
▪ Young staffers are bucking the boss and wearing suits on casual Fridays.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
staffer

"staff-writer," 1949, in journalism, from staff-writer (1878); from staff (n.) in the "group of employees" sense.

Wiktionary
staffer

n. A member of a staff.

WordNet
staffer

n. an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) [syn: staff member]

Usage examples of "staffer".

This only added to the anxiety of several thousand staffers who were left to wonder whether they had been exposed and were at risk for anthrax infection.

Max Keagan ate silently, moving his cookie to the far side of the tray away from Crusty while the rest of the medivac crew and medical staffers took their seats in the nearly deserted mess hall.

One of the Property Protection staffers, a serviceman, and the same photographer as before were clustered around an exterior electric meter near the side door.

The Indian staffers that Tony had hired were Bangalore software hacks, living in America on business visas.

In Delmonico, she lived with seventy-four staffers, an army of housekeepers, a team of gardeners and a small detachment of marines.

Cyrus as Desis One and Two raised the thick velvet cords while Aaron, Sam and Jenny swept underneath during the insanity that faced the Supreme Court police and staffers.

Eddgar is allowed to say he was needed by his State Senate office staff on the morning of SepDECEMBER 1 1, 1995 473 tember 7, but he may not relate his conversations with his staffers, nor may he testify that he asked June to meet Hardcore in his place.

The League staffers were aghast, until I reminded them what the penalty for noncompliance was.

In the statehouse, they could laugh at him all they liked, the staffers and media thugs could be smug, but this was still his work, still where he knewjust who he was, when he felt both the torment of people warring all their lives against the dim weight of poverty SUMMER 1995757 and scorn, and the furious strength of his dedication to them.

After months of frustrating delays, tensions erupted during one secure videoconference call between Baghdad and Langley when the deputy station chief in Baghdad started yelling at headquarters staffers, demanding that they provide the written guidelines for interrogations that the station had requested.

Staffers had customised their work spaces in odd ways, as if trying to make them cosier and less efficient-looking.

He earned a second while dealing with such issues as the fall of the Soviet Union and the war in the Persian Gulf as a key intelligence staffer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The events of the past six months had so badly jangled the nerves of the invited guests -- the staffers and journalists who had been with McGovern from New Hampshire all the way to Sioux Falls on election day -- that nobody really wanted to go to the party, for fear that it might be a funeral and a serious bummer.

I did catch a few hours before the staffers woke me, crying about the comm center not being open yet.

Clinton administration staffers, only the one who never worked for any Republican administration is the one who landed a permanent position at ABC News.