Meaning of Staff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
   countable, uncountable
2. A building material of plaster and fiber used as an exterior wall covering of temporary buildings, as at expositions.
3. A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
   countable, uncountable
4. a composition of plaster and fibrous material used for a temporary finish and in ornamental work, as on exposition buildings.
5. The employees of a business.
   countable, uncountable
6. A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
   uncountable
7. A fairly long straight piece of solid material used especially as a support in walking:cane, stave, stick, walking stick.
8. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
   countable, uncountable
9. a group of people employed in running a business, school etc. The school has a large teaching staff; The staff are annoyed about the changes. personeel هَيئَه، طاقَم персонал pessoal sbor; štáb; personál das Personal stab; -stab προσωπικό personal كاركنان henkilöstö personnelסגל स्टाफ osoblje, zaposlenici személyzet; tanári kar staf starfslið/-menn personale 職員 직원 tarnautojai, personalas (vienas iestādes) darbinieki; personāls; štats kakitangan stafpersonale, stabpersonelpessoal staff, per­so...
   etc
10. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
    countable, uncountable
11. to supply with staff. Most of our offices are staffed by volunteers. van personeel voorsien يُزَوِّد بالمُوَظَّفين снабдявам с персонал servir obsadit besetzen bemande επανδρώνω, στελεχώνω personaliga varustama, töökohti täitma كارمند گرفتن miehittää, hankkia henkilökuntaa pourvoir en personnel לאייש कर्मचारी रखना kadrovski popuniti, snabdjeti osobljem személyzettel ellát menyediakan staf manna (provvedere di personale) 職員を配置する (직원을) 배치하다 aprūpinti tarnautojais, sukomplektuoti kadrus nodrošin...
12. The rung of a ladder.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
13. a sitting-room for the staff of eg a school. A meeting will be held in the staffroom. personeelkamer غُرْفَة الهَيئه стая за персонала sala de professores sborovna; ředitelna der Versammlungsraum lærerværelse αίθουσα καθηγητών personaliruum, õpetajate tuba دفتر opettajainhuone, sosiaalitilat salle des professeurs חֲדַר סֶגֶל कर्मचारी कक्ष zbornica tanári szoba ruang staf kennarastofa; setustofa starfsmanna sala dei professori 職員室 직원실 dėstytojų/mokytojų kambarys personāla telpa; skolotāju u.tm...
    eg
14. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
    countable, uncountable
15. a set of lines and spaces on which music is written or printed. balk سُطور مُتَوازِيَه لِكِتابَة النوتَه الموسيقِيَّه петолиние pauta notová osnova das Notensystem nodelinier; nodeark πεντάγραμμο noodijoonestik حامل nuottiviivasto portéeחמשה पांच समान्तर रेखाओं की संगति सारणी crtovlje a kotta öt vonala partitur nótnastrengur pentagramma 譜表 보표(譜表) penklinė nošu līnija[] baluk notenbalknoteplan; de fem notelinjene pięciolinia pauta portativ нотный стан notová osnova notno črtovje notne linije n...
16. An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
    countable, uncountable
17. personal de una institución.
18. The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
    countable, uncountable
19. A stick or cane carried as an aid in walking or climbing.
20. 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.
    countable, uncountable
21. pl. staffs A rule or similar graduated stick used for testing or measuring, as in surveying.
22. A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
    archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And thus ſhall ye eate it [the lamb]: with your loines girded, your ſhooes on your feet, and your ſtaffe in your hand: and ye ſhall eate it in haſte: it is the Lords Paſſeouer.”

“The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.”

“The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.”

“The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paid staff.”

“No department of the Southern Railway escaped some share of the work involved, and the outdoor traffic and locomotive staffs in particular were engaged literally night and day, snatching a few hours' sleep as opportunity offered, until the task was completed.”

“Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".”

“It turns out that, in journalistic terms, and especially at the FT, where many staff see out their entire careers, seven years is nothing.”

“a constable's staff”

“Me thought this ſtaffe mine Office-badge in Court / Was broke in twaine:”

“All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.”

“I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.”

“Mr. Cowley had found out, that no kind of Staff is proper for an Heroick Poem; as being all too lirical:”

“At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him.”

“The train-staff and ticket system was used widely at one time, until superseded by electrical token systems, the first of which, the tablet system, appeared in 1878, […].”

“The first up train was the morning semi-fast ex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchanging staffs at about 15 m.p.h. […] The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vital staff.”

“The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of train staffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.”

CEFR level