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Definition: Staff |
StaffNoun1. Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task; "the hospital has an excellent nursing staff"; "the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions". 2. The body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university". 3. A strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose; "he walked with the help of a wooden staff". 4. A rod carried as a symbol. 5. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written. Verb1. Provide with staff; "This position is not always staffed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "staff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | Specialists within an organization providing advisory or assisting services to line managers and supervisors but not directly responsible for accomplishing the primary goals of the enterprise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | Personnel: the working force or body of persons employed by an organization, firm or individual. The term is. . . synonymous with employees, staff, and workers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Staff I keep the staff in my own hand. I keep possession; I retain the right. The staff was the ancient sceptre, and therefore, figuratively, it means, power, authority, dignity, etc. To part with the staff. To lose or give up office or possession. (See above. "Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm." Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., ii. 3. To put down one's staff in a place. To take up one's residence. The allusion is to the tent-staff: where the staff is placed, there the tent is stretched, and the nomad resides. To strike my staff. To lodge for the time being. "Thou mayst see me at thy pleasure, for I intend to strike my staff at yonder hostelry."- Cæsur Borgia, x v. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A surveyor's leveling rod. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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A caduceus (kerykeion in Greek) staff with two snakes wrapped around it.
The caduceus is a symbol of commerce and is associated with the Greek god Hermes. It was originally a herald's staff, sometimes with wings, with two white ribbons attached. The ribbons eventually evolved into snakes in the figure-eight shape.
In modern times it is often mistakenly used interchangeably with the Rod of Asclepius (particularly in the United States), although the two symbols have distinct and unrelated meanings.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caduceus."
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In musical notation, the staff or stave is a set of five horizontal lines on which note symbols are placed to indicate pitch and time.The staff is read left to right: one note to the right of another means that it is to be played later. The vertical position of the notehead on the staff indicates which note is to be played: notes that are higher in pitch are marked higher up on the staff. The notehead can be placed in the gap between two lines, or centred vertically on a line. Each rise to the next position, be it line or space, represents a rise of one step in the diatonic scale. Notes which fall outside the range of the staff are placed on or between leger lines, lines the width of the note they need to hold, added above or below the staff.
The staff alone does not represent any specific notes without a clef, although a clefless staff may be used to represent a set of percussion sounds. The clef fixes one particular position as being a specific note, for example the treble clef puts the G above middle C on the first line up from the bottom.
Once fixed by a clef, the notes represented by the positions on the staff can be modified by the key signature, or by accidentals on individual notes. Unmodified, the positions on the staff give the scale of C major.
The application of a time signature groups notes on the staff into measures.
The musical staff can be thought of as a graph of pitch with respect to time; pitches are roughly given by their vertical position on the staff, and notes on the left are played before notes to their right.
Examples
The following is a piano staff with simple notes and two rests.
Here is an example image with some typical music notation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Musical staff."
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The staff, or quarterstaff, is a traditional weapon, basically consisting of a long wooden stick. The length of the weapon varies, but it is approximately the same height as the user. The weapon's name comes from the way it is commonly held: one hand at the center of the staff, and one hand halfway between the center and one end.The quarterstaff is a crushing weapon, much like the club, but its weight distribution is even throughout its entire length. Sharpened or fitted with a metal head, the quarterstaff easily becomes a spear or some other short pole weapon.
Being a very simple weapon to manufacture, it has a long history of use, and a wide cultural dispersion.
The staff is a traditional weapon of many Asian martial arts. In Japan it is often referred to a the bo, or in shorter 130cm version as the jo. It was historically a common weapon in England, where it features in the Robin Hood legend as the favorite weapon of Little John. In French savate, the staff and the techniques of using it is known as the grand canne.
Moves include many different forms of blocks, thrusts, strikes, and sweeps.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quarterstaff."
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See
- Musical staff
- Staff organization
- Quarterstaff
- Staff of office
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STAFF | English | Society for Techno-innovation of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: StaffSynonyms: faculty (n), stave (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Phrase: "give me a staff of honor for my age"; bis pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus; "old age is creeping on apace"; "slow-consuming age"'; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"; "the silver livery of advised age"; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made". |
Arms | Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy. |
Canonicals | Noun: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole; fanon, fannel; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote, calotte; bands; capouch, amice; vagas, vakas, vakass; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; biretta; crosier; pastoral staff, thurifer; costume. |
Council | Noun: council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff. |
Food | Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese. |
Hope | Anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff; (support); heaven. |
Indication | Beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard. |
Life | Nourishment, staff of life. (food). |
Manifestation | Plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday; plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's face, plain as the way to parish church. |
Master | The authorities, the powers that be, the government; staff, etat major, aga, official, man in office, person in authority; sircar, sirkar, Sublime Porte. |
Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon. | |
Party | Staff; dramatis personae. |
Scepter | Noun: scepter, regalia, caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire, mace, fasces, wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; flag; (insignia); ensign of authority, emblem of authority, badge of authority, insignia of authority. |
Servant | Retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court. |
Support | Staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle; bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Staff |
| English words defined with "staff": Cantoral staff ♦ headquarters staff ♦ Jack staff ♦ Leveling staff ♦ Object staff ♦ Pack staff, Paddle staff, Pastoral staff ♦ staff line, staff member, staff officer ♦ The staff of life ♦ Ward staff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "staff": air pollution staff, allied staff, attending staff ♦ Beaten with his own Staff, births attended by health staff ♦ Cross staff ♦ Inclined Staff Gage ♦ Jacob staff ♦ Medical Staff Privileges ♦ self-reading staff, sopwith staff, Staff Development, Staff Gage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "staff": Wale. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Staff" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (staff), Italian (staff). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers -- and his baseball glove (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Take this staff, and do my wonders (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday) I'd check with the disgruntled staff! (Mrs. Doubtfire; writing credit: Randi Mayem Singer) So he had some staff flunky send me a fruit basket (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) The kitchen staff is complaining of rats in the kitchen (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Strong words in the staff room (Don't Stand So Close To Me; performing artist: The Police) | |
Clever | Dogs have masters. Cats have staff. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Staff of Life (1957) The War in China -- Von Waldersee and Staff (1901) Earl Roberts and Staff (1900) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The office field investigation of cancer from Harvard became the first NCI staff. This photo was taken in the summer of 1937. See also ar003955. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Shows photo of NCI's first scientific staff gathered around conference room table. (very interesting shot in the dark with a slide projected on the screen which reflects off the table. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Members of the Technical Development Laboratory staff operating a device which measures the energy required to pump a hand-powered spray can. Credit: CDC. |  | Pictured here is a trial run of a patient taken from CDC to a nearby medical center. A doctor is administering care to the patient with supportive help from the Isolation Unit medical staff. Credit: CDC. |
 | Orifice and tide staff for bubbler gauge on offshore structure Eleuthera Island operations off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tide staff installation at Florida Keys site Tides party of Gerald B. Mills. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The tide staff at Skamokawa - a ghost town on the Lower Columbia River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Andy Allen measuring distance from mark on tide staff to location on pier top. K. Fuhs is diver in water helping keep the tape vertical. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Scott Gudes delivers a welcome speech to the volunteers that joined the NOAA Restoration Center staff and Tampa Baywatch to assist in the monofilament clean-up. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A former NOAA staff member takes a secchi depth reading. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
James Russell Lowell | Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. |
Miguel de Cervantes | The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life. |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany further agrees to provide for the salaries and expenses of the Commission and of such staff as it may employ. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The grim beadle now made a gesture with his staff. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The yellow man carried his staff and bundle in his hand |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Aristotle stooped much, and made use of a staff. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But I did not always use this staff of life |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Don't hesitate to turn to treatment staff for support. (references) | |
Currently, all Coffee Breaks are written by NCBI staff. (references) | ||
Its staff can make referrals to support groups and MS research centers. (references) | ||
Business | DCB has 350 researchers and staff. (references) | |
Services are provided by multilingual staff. (references) | ||
Also, talented HCS staff will be placed “on the front lines. (references) | ||
Children | Guatemala | Reports of sexual abuse by the staff are common. (references) |
Brazil | When necessary, staff also placed victims in foster homes. (references) | |
Venezuela | However, public facilities for such children are inadequate and have poorly trained staff. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | Many of the original staff left to join Res Publica. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | The next day, Intchama sent his bodyguards to intimidate the staff again. (references) | |
Iraq | University staff are hired and fired depending on their support for the Government. (references) | |
Economic History | Vanuatu | The open end is closest to the staff. (references) |
Malaysia | Any expatriate on staff requires a work permit. (references) | |
Nepal | General Prajwalla S.JB. Rana is the Chief of Army Staff. (references) | |
Human Rights | Niger | Corruption among prison staff was rampant. (references) |
United Kingdom | Fellow prisoners charged that prison staff beat him. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Soldiers reportedly beat staff members who resisted. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | Two clinic staff members were disciplined. (references) |
India | A few days earlier, staff members at the council also had been attacked by alleged VHP members. (references) | |
Greece | The Prime Minister has designated a member of his staff to coordinate the efforts of all government ministries having a role in their integration, and the Ministry of Interior established an interministerial committee in March with the same aim. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ukraine | The judiciary also was overburdened, inefficient, and lacked sufficient funding and staff. (references) |
Switzerland | There is virtually no standing army apart from training cadres and a few essential headquarters staff. (references) | |
Bangladesh | In December 1982, General H.M. Ershad, then Army Chief of General Staff, seized power and declared himself President. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mauritania | Their administrative staff is independent of the Government. (references) |
Kuwait | Of 50 National Assembly members, 6 are Shi'a, as is the armed forces chief of staff. (references) | |
Yemen | Parliamentarians and parliamentary staff attend foreign NGO-sponsored training workshops designed to increase their independence and effectiveness. (references) | |
Trade | Morocco | The reform program also calls for upgrading staff skills through on-the-job training and short-term courses. (references) |
Egypt | For further information and assistance contact the U.S. Commerce Department's Commercial Service Liaison Staff, Office of the U.S. Executive Director, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433, USA. (references) | |
Egypt | Moreover, importers face the problems of ill-defined or unwritten product standards, and backlogs result from authorities having limited staff or too few inspection machines to conduct their quality inspections. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | Party hosts usually have staff track down guests for a confirmation reply. (references) |
Philippines | The Filipino approach to the problem is to use staff capable of moving through the bureaucracy. (references) | |
Indonesia | Most of the better hotels have English-speaking staff, as do the shopping centers that cater to expatriates. (references) | |
Women | Brunei | Female officers staff the unit. (references) |
Nicaragua | However, due to a lack of funding, the staff size is often limited to a far smaller number. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | Staff members conducted training, debates, and seminars on women's rights and family planning. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cambodia | The MOSALVY is hampered by inadequate resources, staff, and training. (references) |
Barbados | Most unions belong to the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations. (references) | |
Saint Lucia | However, actual closures rarely occur because of lack of staff and resources. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Angela Ricci | You don't have to sign anything. At least I don't remember signing anything. Now, it was a rough moment there. But just letting the doctor and the staff know that it's OK to pull the ventilator. |
Mark Shields | The White House remains very special. We interviewed, I remember, Andrew Card, the chief of staff to President George W. Bush. And he was very candid about life expectancy of a chief of staff. |
Rush Limbaugh | Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says the president won't veto legislation setting up the department if it expands government. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | To place any dependance upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | With the organization of the staff there is equal cause to be satisfied. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The United Nations Organization, if we have the will adequately to staff it and to make it work as it should, will provide a great voice to speak constantly and responsibly in terms of world collaboration and world well-being. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low, that a man's rank and reputation in this Administration will be determined by the size of the job he does, and not by the size of his staff, his office or his budget. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Haley, back when I hired you to work on my White House staff, I suspected you might amount to something someday! |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We cut staff, cut perks, and trimmed the fleet of federal limousines. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Staff" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 97.82% of the time. "Staff" is used about 22,699 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 97.82% | 22,203 | 398 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.96% | 218 | 20,478 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.87% | 197 | 21,803 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22,699 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "staff" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Staff | Last name | 1,000 | 14,173 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Staff Leasing, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "staff": air pollution staff ♦ air staff ♦ allied staff ♦ Almucanter staff ♦ analyse staff ♦ analysis staff ♦ army staff ♦ attending staff ♦ auxiliary staff ♦ batling staff ♦ battalion chief of staff ♦ battalion staff ♦ batting staff ♦ be on the staff ♦ be on the staff of ♦ births attended by health staff ♦ Cantoral staff ♦ certifying staff ♦ chief of general staff ♦ chief of staff ♦ commanding staff ♦ Dental Staff ♦ diplomatic staff ♦ directing staff ♦ domestic staff ♦ editorial staff ♦ embassy staff member ♦ exercise directing staff ♦ extra staff ♦ Field staff ♦ fill up staff vacancies ♦ general staff ♦ ground staff ♦ Hand staff ♦ headquarters staff ♦ hotel staff ♦ integrated staff ♦ international military staff ♦ Jack staff ♦ Jacob's staff ♦ joint Chiefs of Staff ♦ joint staff ♦ Jupiter's staff ♦ Leveling staff ♦ levelling staff ♦ locally contracted staff ♦ maintenance staff ♦ managerial staff ♦ medical staff ♦ Medical Staff Privileges ♦ member of staff ♦ military staff ♦ number of staff ♦ nursing staff ♦ object staff ♦ of the staff ♦ office staff ♦ offset staff ♦ on the staff ♦ one's staff ♦ pack staff ♦ paddle staff ♦ parallel staff ♦ pastoral staff ♦ permanent staff ♦ piligrim's staff ♦ plain as a pike staff ♦ planning staff ♦ plow staff ♦ Professional Staff Committees ♦ proof staff ♦ quarter staff ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff at a given point in time ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff in the business enterprise sector at a given point in time ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff in the Government sector at a given point in time ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff in the higher education sector at a given point in time ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff in the private non profit sector at a given point in time ♦ reduced staff ♦ reduction of staff ♦ reductions in staff ♦ regimental staff ♦ research staff ♦ rock staff ♦ runic staff ♦ sales staff ♦ security staff ♦ senior staff officer ♦ service staff ♦ Shepherd's staff ♦ skeleton staff ♦ staff angle ♦ staff bearer ♦ staff car ♦ staff college ♦ Staff Development ♦ staff duties ♦ staff duty ♦ staff employee ♦ staff estimate ♦ staff line ♦ staff locator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "staff": staff-appraisal, staff-cabins, Staff-captain, staff-child, staff-contact, staff-controlled, staff-cum-students, staff-development, staff-finding, staff-head, staff-inmate, staff-intensive, staff-nurse, staff-officers, staff-parent, staff-patient, staff-pupil, staff-related, staff-room, staff-rooms, staff-sergeant, staff-shedding, staff-side, staff-student, staff-surgeon, staff-to-staff, staff-tree family, staff-tutors. | |
Ending with "staff": chief-of-staff, chiefs-of-staff, non-staff. | |
Containing "staff": general-staff officer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
staff infection | 631 | creative staff wa | 43 |
staff | 625 | advocate judge staff | 40 |
staff development | 169 | staff management | 38 |
pro staff | 147 | staff wizard | 35 |
army chief staff | 115 | chairman chief joint staff | 34 |
bo staff | 97 | music staff paper | 34 |
joint chief of staff | 94 | list staff | 34 |
staff paper | 87 | college command general staff | 32 |
staff scheduling software | 76 | council development national staff | 29 |
staff scheduling | 69 | am staff | 28 |
music staff | 63 | bmx staff | 27 |
staff motivation | 57 | experienced health preferred resource staff | 26 |
rod and staff | 57 | publisher rod staff | 25 |
chief of staff | 52 | wilson pro staff | 25 |
staff training | 52 | force staff | 25 |
staff leasing | 50 | staff meeting | 25 |
hiking staff | 49 | qantas staff travel | 25 |
certified design solution staff web | 49 | air college command staff | 25 |
walking staff | 48 | shepherd staff | 25 |
free paper staff | 46 | the white house staff | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "staff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | staf. (various references) | |
Albanian | stap (bat, cane, cosh, shillelagh, stave), shtyllë (backbone, bankseat, bearing, column, mainstay, pile, pillar, pole, post, stanchion, standard, stock, tower), shtizë (gad, javelin, lance, Pike, pole, shaft, spear), shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cane, cudgel, pointer, pole, rod, roost, stick, truncheon, walking stick), trup (bodice, body, build, bulk, case, constitution, flesh, frame, personnel, shaft), organikë (personnel), mbështetës (adhesive, alimentary, backing, friend, help, recliner, recumbent, supporting, sustaining, sustentive). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقياس مدرج (calibrate, scale), مجموعة العاملين, مجموع الموظفين (personnel), هيئة (appearance, aspect, body, cast, face, feature, form, framework, guise, make, organism, organization, shape, touch), قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rail, rod, shaft, stem, stick, switch, wand), سارية (mast, pole, standard), عصا الراعي (crook), عصا (cane, leg, perch, pole, prop, stave, stick, switch, tally, truncheon), طاقم (crew, ensemble, gang, train), صولجان الأسقف (crosier), المدرج الموسيقي (stave), العاملين, أصبح عضو من العاملين, أركان حرب, دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | състав (constitution, establishment, make up), стълб (column, pier, pile, pillar, pole, post, riser, shaft, stanchion, standard, verge), снабдявам с персонал, щаб (headquarters), тояга (bat, club, cudgel, stick), колегия (brotherhood, college), основа (accidence, alkali, base, basis, bed, foot, footing, foundation, fundamental, grounding, groundwork, joint, lye, pedestal, radix, seat, seating, sole, stem, substratum, substructure, theme, underpinning, warp, warp and woof), опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), нивелирана рейка, жезъл (baton, rod, truncheon, verge, wand, warder), персонал (manpower, personnel), петолиние. (various references) | |
Chinese | 职员 (Clerical, staffer, staffs), 職工 (workers), 人" (crew, personnel), 標尺 (rear sight, staff gauge, surveyor's rod). (various references) | |
Czech | sloka (strophe, verse), zamìstnanci, uèitelský sbor, tyè (bar, pole, post, rail, rod, scape, shank, stick, upright), personál (personnel), opora (anchor, backbone, bulwark, buttress, foothold, footing, footling, pillar, prop), hùl (baton, crook, rod, stick), žerï (pole). (various references) | |
Danish | staff, personale (officials, staff of workmen), i aktiv tjeneste eller paa ventepenge vaerende personale (whether actively employed or available for active employment), gipscement. (various references) | |
Dutch | staf (baton, cane, stick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | stabo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پرسنل (Personnel), هیلت (Astronomy, Attitude, Commission, Configuration, Corps, Hue, Panel, Physique), چوب پرچم , چوب بلند, کارمندان (Personnel), تیر (Arrow, Bar, Dart, Gunshot, Ledger, Lug, Mast, Perch, Prop, Shaft, Shot, Spike, Stanchion, Staple, Timber), ستادارتش , افسران وصاحبمنصبان , اعضاء , باکارمندمجهزکردن وشدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sauva (baton, crosier, rod, stick, wand), salko (pole), virkasuhteessa oleva henkilöstö (officials), virkamiehet (officials), tanko (bar, pole, rod, stick), patukka (truncheen), pamppu (truncheon, tycoon), nuottiviivasto, henkilökunta (employees, personnel), henkilökohtaisuus (employees, personnel), esikunta. (various references) | |
French | staff, personnel. (various references) | |
German | Stab (bar, baton, cane, crook, crosier, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, rod, stave, stick, stump, swab, wand), personal (characters, personnel, servants, staffing), belegschaft (labor, labor force, personnel, straff, work force). (various references) | |
Greek | προσωπικό (personnel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוט (bar, boom, gad, pole, rod, roost, shaft, stake, yoke), משען (abutment, anchor, brace, buttress, prop, rest, stay, support), משע ת (abutment, buttress, crutch, stave, support), מקל (extenuating, ferule, indulgent, lenient, palliative, rod, stave, stick, switch), מ ' ון (apparatus, gear, machinery, mechanism, organism, personnel), לאיש (man), שרביט (rod, wand), צות (crew, panel, team), ס'ל (cadre, corps, suite). (various references) | |
Hungarian | személyzet (crew, Manning, personnel), bot (baton, cane, pole, rod, stave, stick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | staf, tongkat (cane, goad, paddle, stick, truncheon, wand), para pegawai, menganakbuahi (man). (various references) | |
Irish | foireann (team). (various references) | |
Italian | personale (Corporal, figure, person, personal, personnel, private), stato maggiore, organico (organic, personnel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 譜表 (score), 部" (member), "線 , 幹部 (leaders, management), 幕僚 (staff officer), 役" (executive, officer, official), 局" (clerk), スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょくい" (clerk), ぶい" (long silence, member), ふひょう (a tag or label, appended chart or table or graph, attached list, bad reputation, buoy, disgrace, floating, ice floe, pawn, score, unpopularity), ばくりょう (staff officer), か"ぶ (affected part, civilian and military man, leaders, management), "せ" (co-opting, mutual election), スタッフ (stuff), やくい" (executive, officer, official). (various references) | |
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