Word Finder - staff

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(plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

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(plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

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(plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.

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The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.

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A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W

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A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.

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a constable's staff

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A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

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The rung of a ladder.

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A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.

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An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

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The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

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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.

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To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

But I did not always use this staff of life.

The chief of staff of the army is also a member of the council.

I am speaking of the staff in general.

I have come from the staff, Count.

Before he had had time to finish giving these instructions, a chief of staff followed by a suite galloped up to him.

The commander-in-chief was putting up there, but just when Pierre arrived he was not in and hardly any of the staff were there--they had gone to the church service.

Though Kutuzov had dismissed all unnecessary men from the staff, Boris had contrived to remain at headquarters after the changes.

A crowd of military men was assembled there, members of the staff could be heard conversing in French, and Kutuzov's gray head in a white cap with a red band was visible, his gray nape sunk between his shoulders.

When the dust settles, he can probably get on staff at Keene State.

It was obvious he was composing; staff paper littered the piano, and he held a pencil between his teeth.

She thought of Elise's security detail and then of the Vice President, the President's staff, the renowned scholars and businessmen taking refuge there.

In time of peace an officer is attached to the staff for not more than four years.

As he stepped past the generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and stumbled over it.

The Italian General Staff is said to have undertaken, in the event of war against France, to operate with two armies on the north-western frontier against the French arme des Alpes, of which the war strength is about 250,000 men.

I don't recall ever being in a department store, drinking from the water fountain, and having the staff look at me disapprovingly because I was running up the water bill.

The staff captain's voice began to tremble.

From the date when Mr Hart took up his duties at Peking, in 1863, he unceasingly devoted the whole of his energies to the work of the department, with the result that the revenue grew from upwards of eight million taels to nearly twenty-seven million, collected at the thirty-two treaty ports, and the customs staff, which in 1864 numbered 200, reached in 1901 a total of 57 0 4.

The offices of the Submarine Company in London, Dover, Ramsgate, East Dean and Jersey were purchased by the Post Office, as well as the cable ship; and the staff, 370 in number, was taken over by the government.

Of the secondary and higher educatory methods, in the normal schools and licei the state provides for the payment of the staff and for scientific material, and often largely supports the ginnasi and technical schools, which should by law be supported by the communes.

By the concordat of Worms, 1122, the emperor surrendered the right of investiture by ring and staff, and granted the right of election to the clergy.

Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Treviso, Venice entered into a compact to defend their liberties; and when he came again in 1163 with a brilliant staff of German knights, the imperial cities refused to join his standards.

On the staff of Figaro was another compatriot with whom she was already intimate as a visitor at Nohant.

Procureurs-gnraux and avocats-gnraux are also attached to the parquet, or permanent official staff, of the courts of appeal.

At that date the superintending and managing staffs of the Post Office comprised 590 persons, the staff of the old companies with only about one-third of the traffic having been 534 persons.

Under the chief commissioner, who is the supreme head of the settlement, are a deputy and a staff of assistant superintendents and overseers, almost all Europeans, and sub-overseers, who are natives of India.

The total population of the settlement, consisting of convicts, their guards, the supervising, clerical and departmental staff, with the families of the latter, also a certain number of ex-convicts and trading settlers and their families, numbered 16,106.

During the World War he served with the headquarters staff of the British army in France (1916-7), attaining the rank of colonel, and later was Director of Information under the Prime Minister (1917-8), and his History of the War (Nelson) was an admirable piece of work.

When the Civil War broke out, he became a major in a Missouri volunteer regiment and served as chief of staff to Major-General Nathaniel Lyon until the death of that officer.

Wheat and the date palm seem to have been indigenous, and the latter is still one of the chief poductions of the country, but in later years rice has taken the place of wheat as the staff of life.

At this time he was chief of the staff of the Russian army and adjutant-general to the tsar.

This symbolism is expressed in the words used, at least since the 10th century, by the consecrator in delivering the pastoral staff at the consecration of a bishop and the benediction of an abbot.

He breaks the staff " Favour," i.e.

This staff officer discovered and reported that the Prussians were drawing off northwards to rally at Wavre; and about 9 A.M.

He received, however, no appointment to Kutuzov's staff despite all Anna Mikhaylovna's endeavors and entreaties.

Beside him was his comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes.

On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two quite opposite reputations.

Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest lay in the general progress of the war.

He answered the staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head.

And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostov.

Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through his fieldglass.

Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to the general, who looked through his field glass.

The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a walk to meet him.

After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkov had not remained in the regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagration.

We can't stop those fellows, said the staff officer pointing to the soldiers.

The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on.

The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone.

Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had told him the whole field could be seen.

Behind Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity.

Zherkov and the staff officer bent over their saddles and turned their horses away.

The staff officer joined in the colonel's appeals, but Bagration did not reply; he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room for the two approaching battalions.