variants
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as in employees
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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as in batons
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 staffs
The top firms have staffs of several thousand employees who are expensive but have proven worthwhile.
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Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The news and editorial staffs of Southern California News Group and The San Diego Union-Tribune had no role in this post’s preparation.
—Melanie Marshall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Six years, five coaching staffs, three transfers later, Stone Earle’s perspective about football is far broader than the average student-athlete.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
The occasion is an event held by the Women’s Coaching Alliance, a group striving to diversify football staffs.
—Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
Clowe’s duties included working with the Sharks’ scouting and development staffs, Grier and fellow Sharks assistant general managers Tom Holy and Joe Will, helping to oversee all aspects of the Sharks’ hockey operations department.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
The news and editorial staffs of The Denver Post had no role in this post’s preparation.
—Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
The news and editorial staffs of the Orange County Register had no role in this post’s preparation.
—Janus Norman, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
Players and team staffs compete for a $5 million prize pool.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The news and editorial staffs of Southern California News Group and The San Diego Union-Tribune had no role in this post’s preparation.
—Melanie Marshall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Six years, five coaching staffs, three transfers later, Stone Earle’s perspective about football is far broader than the average student-athlete.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
The occasion is an event held by the Women’s Coaching Alliance, a group striving to diversify football staffs.
—Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
Clowe’s duties included working with the Sharks’ scouting and development staffs, Grier and fellow Sharks assistant general managers Tom Holy and Joe Will, helping to oversee all aspects of the Sharks’ hockey operations department.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
The news and editorial staffs of The Denver Post had no role in this post’s preparation.
—Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
The news and editorial staffs of the Orange County Register had no role in this post’s preparation.
—Janus Norman, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
Players and team staffs compete for a $5 million prize pool.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staffs
Noun
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Al Jazeera employees even reportedly work with the terrorist group to identify protesters.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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That promise now feels increasingly tenuous; few of the permanent employees have been hired yet, the complex is still under construction, and most of the workforce are transient staff on temporary visas or contracts – like the ones swept up by ICE.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The officers used batons and the butts of their rifles to strike the men in the face, neck, chest, and abdomen.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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This is not just the violence of batons or bullets, but the quieter devastation inflicted by law through denial, deferral or bureaucratic neglect.—
Hansel Alejandro Aguilar,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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The district says the money will help pay for a laundry list of programs, such as all-day kindergarten at all grade schools; the universal free breakfast program; pre-K centers; expanded career-technical education programs; and additional social workers, counselors and behavior specialists.—
Kevin Richert,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Sep. 2025
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Rather than rendering aid or notifying emergency personnel, Sellers told co-workers that a ‘woman fell in the parking lot’ and needed help.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Cracker Barrel in Belleville still has lots of space between the tables, which is good, because a statistically improbable number of customers the other morning were using canes or walkers.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Fennell explained that grapevine canes, the woody stems that support grape clusters, are an abundant, cellulose-rich material, and are available in the large quantities each year after harvest.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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They mentor employees, stabilize workforces, and help businesses compete for larger contracts.—
Dan Ringo,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never mind that large language models have so far proven useless at 95% of the companies that have made their workforces try to use them, researchers from MIT recently found.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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The proteins fit together in the same way as in eukaryotes, although the structures were made up of five rods, rather than 13, making a miniature tubule.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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And also that people have used four branches of witch hazel as the vining rods or witching sticks to find water.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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To counter the explosive projectiles, Russian tank crews began mounting homemade cages above their turrets to cushion the tanks from blasts.—
Marco Hernandez,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The fire suppression efforts involve 20 engines, two water tenders and eight hand crews.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Staffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staffs. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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