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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

  • (..) of righteousness for His name's sake. "Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death... "...l will fear no evil. "For Thou art with me. "Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me." Yankees! The Yankees! Dr. Meade, they're getting closer. They'll never get into Atlanta. (..)
    1939 Gone with the Wind