| staff | |
| 1. n. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | |
| 2. n. (music, plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written. | |
| 3. n. (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. | |
| The company employed 10 new members of staff this month. | |
| 4. n. A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W | |
| 5. n. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office. | |
| a constable's staff | |
| 6. n. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. | |
| 7. n. (archaic) The rung of a ladder. | |
| 8. n. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. | |
| 9. n. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. | |
| 10. n. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. | |
| 11. n. (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 pe | |
| 12. v. To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members. | |
| 13. n. misspelling of staph | |
