Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STAFF

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Definitions of STAFF

1. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
2. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
3. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
4. Misspelling of staph.
5. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
6. (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
7. (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
8. (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.^W
9. (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
10. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
11. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
12. (military) 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.
13. (rail, archaic) A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
14. (transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

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Examples of Using STAFF in a Sentence

• The FAA is headed by the Chief of the General Staff António Egídio de Sousa Santos since 2018, who reports to the minister of National Defense, currently João Ernesto dos Santos.
• It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, which can be divided into two general branches: the Ground Forces, and the Air Force.
• The Ministry of Defense is responsible for political leadership, while overall military command is in the hands of the Defense Staff, headed by the Chief of the Defense.
• A general staff (État-Major Général) commands the armed forces, consisting of a joint staff (État-Major inter-armes); a training staff (État-Major de la Formation), and a logistics staff (État-Major de la Logistique).
• Written and performed by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, it was one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light.
• He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy as an engineer officer in 1958, from the Army Staff College in 1970 and from the Armed Forces College in 1971.
• Through the use of these and a magic wand or staff, she would transform her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.
• He was the 15th national security advisor from 1987 to 1989, and the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
• Much of its head staff, including Bazin, Doniol-Valcroze, Lo Duca, and the various younger, less-established critics, had met and shared their beliefs about film through their involvement in the publication of Revue du Cinéma from 1946 until its final issue in 1948; Cahiers was created as a successor to this earlier magazine.
• President Nixon awarded the first medal, on the day the Executive Order was signed, to General Earle Wheeler, who was retiring from the US Army after serving as Chief of Staff of the United States Army and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces directs (a) army field forces (armies and districts), without any separate Egyptian Army headquarters; (b) the Egyptian Navy, (c) Egyptian Air Force and (d) Egyptian Air Defense Forces.
• Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 20,600 staff and was a major electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper company, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000.
• Approximately 150 (in the winter) to 310 (in the summer) people are usually present in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands at any time, but they are mainly made up of military personnel, officials, scientific researchers and support staff.
• Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches – army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard – whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.
• Major General Batista Tagme Na Waie was chief of staff of the Guinea-Bissau armed forces until his assassination in 2009.
• Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and, with 53,624 students and 6,707 staff members, it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.
• In a broader sense, one may consider such a system also to include human users and support staff, procedures and workflows, the body of knowledge of relevant concepts and methods, and institutional organizations.
• In the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, he served as the first chief of the General Staff from 1922 to 1924 for the regular Turkish army, during which he commanded forces during the First and Second Battles of İnönü.
• Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979, by staff and students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lasted as an independent company until 1986, when it was bought by Activision.
• The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.
• In a key signature, a sharp or flat symbol on a line or space of the staff indicates that the note represented by that line or space is to be played a semitone higher (sharp) or lower (flat) than it would otherwise be played.
• It was initially developed in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser used solely to distribute campus information as part of a Campus-Wide Information System and for browsing the Gopher space.
• The operational head of the AFN is the Chief of Defence Staff, who is subordinate to the Nigerian Defence Minister.
• The National War College (NWC) was officially established on July 1, 1946, as an upgraded replacement for the Army-Navy Staff College, which operated from June 1943 to July 1946.
• A veteran of the Vietnam War, North was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s.

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