staff
People employed by a business or other organisationPeople employed by a business or other organisation.
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» The fire must've broken out after the staff had gone home.
Пожежа очевидно розпочалась, коли працівники пішли додому. — ascolto
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Examples
246 sentencesThe fire must've broken out after the staff had gone home.
Пожежа очевидно розпочалась, коли працівники пішли додому. — ascolto
I speak French to my staff.
Зі своїм персоналом я говорю французькою. — deniko
ruС моим персоналом я говорю по-французски. — paul_lingvo
deIch spreche mit meinem Personal Französisch. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I'll discuss it with my staff.
Meaning
12 senses(countable, uncountable)People employed by a business or other organisation.
The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.
The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paid staff.
Belegschaft, Personal, Stab
персона́лpersonál, ка́дрыkádry, штатštat
персона́лpersonál, ка́дриkádry, штатštat
(uncountable)A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
(countable, uncountable)A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
Stab
по́сохpósox, па́лкаpálka, жезлžezl
More meanings 9
(countable, uncountable)A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
Notenlinien
но́тный станnótnyj stan
(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
(countable, uncountable)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.
Stab
штабštab
штабštab
(countable, uncountable)A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
a constable's staff
(countable, uncountable)A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(countable, uncountable)A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
(countable, uncountable)An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(countable, uncountable)The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)The rung of a ladder.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
Origin
From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-WesFrom Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Danish stav, Swedish stav.
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Forms
plural: staffs / staves / staffSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
82 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.