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staff

Definition

  • noun: a group of people who work for an organization or business
  • noun: a long stick carried in the hand for support in walking
  • verb: to supply (an organization or business) with workers
  • verb: to supply with a staff or with workers
  • often used as '(be) staffed'

Examples

  • ('US') There are 100 people 'on staff'. [=working as members of the staff]

  • The department 'is staffed' with an equal number of men and women.

  • He has been 'on the staff' [=a member of the staff] for 25 years.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) That's tax-deductible. You can write that off. Yes, sir! Andy was a regular cottage industry. In fact, it got so busy at tax time, he was allowed a staff. Could you hand me a stack of s? Got me out of the wood shop a month out of the year, and that was fine by me. And still, he kept (..)
    1994 The Shawshank Redemption