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staff

noun

ˈstaf

Definition of staff

as in workforce

a body of persons at work or available for work we're working with a short staff at the office today

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a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment carried a staff for self-defense when walking alone at night

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Recent Examples of staff The hurdles force charities to spend scarce staff time chasing funds intended for their missions and, occasionally, walk away from the gift altogether, the experts said. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 Apex staff asked Diana to prove Ania is her dependent by sharing her tax return. — Olivia Young, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 The Times’ staff writer August Brown and pop music critic Mikael Wood break down the Ed Sheeran tour debacle. — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Instead, Lynch, Garcia and the rest of the staff gathered earlier this year for an off-site meeting, laid out the financial realities and discussed their options. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for staff

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Swelling Workforce Channel 4 is slashing its workforce by 28%, with around half of commissioning roles at risk.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
State highway agencies point to a shrinking workforce and an inability to hire fast enough, according to detailed grant applications filed annually with the FMCSA.

— John Kelly, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of workforce

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Choose 3-6 strong, healthy, outside canes per plant to keep and leave 3-5 buds on each cane.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2026
Brazil’s ethanol pivot and India’s sugar imports Higher energy prices are also making ethanol more attractive relative to sugar in Brazil, where mills can shift cane between the two products.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of cane

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Chen said that the company’s robots will supplement human manpower, not replace it.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
North Korea’s willingness to sustain such losses reflects the reach of Russia’s global alliances and Moscow’s need for extra manpower.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of manpower

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Every team enters September with unanswered questions, from schematic transitions to new personnel in new places, and some are even existential.

— Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
The governor’s office said the state was securing its harbors, deploying emergency personnel to strategic locations and monitoring dams for any possible breaches or overflows.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of personnel

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Ki picked the 145-pound featherweight class because of its relative depth, and Chou said getting 32 fighters into a bracket requires a deeper pool, perhaps 50 fighters, to have alternates.

— Oskar Garcia, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
In the back, there’s a 38-foot-long heated saltwater pool and a cabana with a full kitchen.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of pool

Noun

Police administered life-saving measures until medical crews responded.

— Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
And while suppression and the idea of living with fire appear to oppose each other, the same detection and real-time decision tools that let crews hit a fire hard and fast are exactly the tools needed to allow a fire to burn under safe conditions.

— Matt Thompson, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026

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