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staff
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[ noun ] (work) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task
Examples "the hospital has an excellent nursing staff" "the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions" Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Can you share medical facilities and staff with neighboring plants ? (Sports Age, 24:9...)This has been the aim of the director of the shooting development program , the New_York staff of the Sportsmen's_Service_Bureau , and the SAAMI shooting_preserve field consultants since the start of the program in 1954 . (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)In Poughkeepsie , N._Y. , in 1952 , a Roman_Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned_Parenthood_Federation or to resign from the hospital staff . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)The tsunami warning system developed since the 1946 disaster in Hawaii relies mainly on a simple and ingenious instrument devised by Commander_C._K._Green of the Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey staff . Its staff makes a preliminary determination of the epicenter of the quake and alerts tide stations near the epicenter for a tsunami . |
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[ verb ] (work) provide with staff
Examples "This position is not always staffed" Used in print (The Philadelphia Inquirer,...)Louis_Glazer is chairman of the men 's committee that , among other jobs , takes_over part of the responsibility for staffing the shop during its evening hours . (James J. Maguire, "A Family Affair"...)Had it not been for such private enterprise , diocesan authorities might of_course have been goaded into establishing institutions subsidized by diocesan funds and parish collections and staffed by religious as paid employees . (Robert Wallace, "This Is the Way It Came About"...)But they left behind them large_numbers of officers , variously called `` volunteers '' or `` mercenaries '' , who now staff the army of Moise_Tshombe in Katanga , the seceded province which , according to Tshombe , holds 65 % of the mineral wealth of the entire country . (An Act for International Development, A Summary...)On_the_other_hand , it is no interference with sovereignty to point_out defects where they exist , such_as that a plan calls_for factories without power to run them , or for institutions without trained personnel to staff them . |
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[ noun ] a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose
Examples "he walked with the help of a wooden staff" Used in print (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)He stood stiffly erect , clutching the staff , his body half hidden by the limp cloth . He clutched the staff , and his dark eyes blinked apologetically . Related terms stick crutch distaff flagpole crook quarterstaff pikestaff alpenstock |
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[ noun ] (education) the body of teachers and administrators at a school
Synonyms Examples "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)A good feeling prevailed on the SMU coaching staff Monday , but attention quickly turned from Saturday 's victory to next week 's problem : Rice_University . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 14173
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[ verb ] (work) serve on the staff of
Examples "The two men staff the reception desk" Related terms |
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[ noun ] building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
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[ noun ] (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
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