Crossword clues for staffs
staffs
- Supplies with a crew
- Provides workers
- Fills positions
- Provides with workers
- Provides with a crew
- Provides personnel for
- Office teams
- Office groups
- Office crews
- Hires a work force
- Fills vacancies in
- Advisory groups
- Work forces
- Support crews
- Sets of musical lines
- Places for flags
- Old rods
- Groups of employees
- English county (abbr)
- Editorial groups
- Mans
- Crooks, e.g.
- Places to make notes
- Fills positions for
- Gets help for
- Fills with personnel
- Fills the positions
- Walking sticks like Moses'
- Crooks, e.g
- Flagpoles
- Man’s more than a crook maybe
- County’s employees, ultimately industrious
- County workers in a number of offices?
- West Midlands county (abbr)
- Provides workforce
- Work groups
- Supplies with personnel
- Provides with personnel
- Puts on the payroll
- Hires a workforce
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
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[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, Skr. sth[=a]pay to cause to stand, to place. See Stand, and cf. Stab, Stave, n.] 1. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or stick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal.
--Ex. xxxviii. 7.With forks and staves the felon to pursue.
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A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. ``Hooked staves.''
--Piers Plowman.The boy was the very staff of my age.
--Shak.He spoke of it [beer] in ``The Earnest Cry,'' and likewise in the ``Scotch Drink,'' as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand.
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A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, Was broke in twain.
--Shak.All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.
--Hayward. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
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The round of a ladder. [R.]
I ascended at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.
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A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.
--Dryden. (Mus.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
(Mech.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(Surg.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
[From Staff, 3, a badge of office.] (Mil.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See ['E]tat Major.
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Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendent or manager; sometimes used for the entire group of employees of an enterprise, excluding the top management; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Jacob's staff (Surv.), a single straight rod or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass.
Staff angle (Arch.), a square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged.
The staff of life, bread. ``Bread is the staff of life.''
--Swift.Staff tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Celastrus, mostly climbing shrubs of the northern hemisphere. The American species ( C. scandens) is commonly called bittersweet. See 2d Bittersweet, 3 (b) .
To set up one's staff, To put up one's staff, To set down one's staff or To put down one's staff, to take up one's residence; to lodge. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "staffs".
Haider found himself in the ticklish position - for the key man in the plot to overthrow Hitler the moment he gave the word to attack - of having to explain in great detail the General Staffs plan for the campaign in Czechoslovakia, and in the uncomfortable position, as it developed, of seeing Hitler tear it to shreds and dress down not only him but Brauchitsch for their timidity and their military incapabilities.
Chief of the Army General Staff was prepared to overthrow the Fuehrer in order to avert a hopeless war - why, then, did not the French and British general staffs know this?
British and French general staffs and the two governments did not know of the opposition of the German Army General Staff to a European war.
The able staffs of the Army, Navy and Air Force had reached the final stage of planning.
English and French general staffs take a very sober view of the prospects of an armed conflict and advise against it.
British and French general staffs think that the Red Army can move across Poland, and in particular through the Vilna gap and across Galicia in order to make contact with the enemy?
Dutch and Belgian general staffs knew from their own border intelligence that the Germans were concentrating some fifty divisions on their frontiers.
Their general staffs discounted the alarming reports from Brussels and The Hague.
In truth neither Hitler, the High Command nor the general staffs of the Army, Navy and Air Force had ever seriously considered how a war with Great Britain could be fought and won.
Talks with the general staffs of Rumania, Hungary and Finland - the last country anxious now to win back what had been taken from her by the Russians in the winter war - were completed.
The Soviet Military Delegation cannot picture to itself how the governments and general staffs of Britain and France, in sending their missions to the U.
He never tired of warning OKW and the general staffs of the Army and Air Force to whom his messages were addressed, that America was controlled by the Jews and the Freemasons, which was exactly what Hitler thought.
Tunisia was still absorbing the attention of commanders and staffs, and it was not until April that we could tell what troops would be fit to take part.
August 4, in a train which carried the very heavy staffs which we needed.
Each of the joint Staffs had behind them a considerable group of twelve to twenty high Staff officers, a quivering audience, silent, with gleaming eyes.