Thesaurus results for STAVES

staffs

noun

variants or staves

Definition of staffs

plural of staff

as in workforces

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 canes

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 first three games of the NLDS matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves was a showcase of the quality of both teams' pitching staffs. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Johnson played for multiple coaching staffs over his 14 seasons. — Cbs Philadelphia, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 Both coaching staffs believed their teams were prepared for a four-quarter battle. — Abbygail Granados, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Sep. 2026 Most of the coaches believe too many staffs rely on rankings and offer lists. — Manny Navarro, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Under a less dire scenario, Paramount could shift its corporate headquarters to another state to qualify for incentives but still maintain large staffs in the creative hubs of Los Angeles and New York, where the company has its legal headquarters. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Pneumatic recovery boots, once a niche tool for pro training staffs, now show up in the nightly routines of Simone Biles, Patrick Mahomes, Venus Williams, Stephen Curry and other elite competitors. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The news and editorial staffs of The New York Daily News had no role in this post’s preparation. — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026 The department requested the city’s City Planning and Dangerous Buildings staffs to assess the structure. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Throughout the world, rapidly aging countries have resorted to foreign labor to fill jobs left vacant by shrinking workforces and to care for surging elderly populations.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
These measures are particularly important especially for Asia’s large outdoor and operational workforces.

— Mitch New, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of workforces

Noun

This is because fruit development consumes much of the vine’s energy, so removing the fruit at this point allows the vine’s energy to continue to develop a strong cordon, canes (vertical shoots), and root system.

— The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of canes

Noun

That calculus changes as AI systems connect to larger pools of internal data.

— Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Rooms are below and the pools and gardens on the ground floor – though this does make the lifts a little confusing as numbers go up even though floors go down.

— Siobhan Grogan, TheWeek, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of pools

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In Paris, tear gas filled the air, and trash cans, school desks and chairs were set alight as riot police with shields and batons clashed with some demonstrators.

— Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Rights groups say police are deploying heavy-handed force with rubber bullets and batons against the protesters, many of them schoolchildren.

— Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of batons

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Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Nearly eight in 10 Marriott associates in Europe say they are offered training or development to further themselves professionally, compared with just over half of employees at a typical European workplace.

— Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of employees

Noun

The Amador County Sheriff's Office lobby was also closed to the public while crews responded.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Short-term, month-to-month rentals (the kind that often show up on a rent roll in a town that runs on rotating crews) were disappearing.

— Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of crews

Noun

As part of orchestrating this project, Simon was also involved in securing visas for the various international performers, encountering in the process the uneven access to travel for cultural workers across classes, nationalities, and milieus.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
The circumstances and cultural details may vary, but these unequal power dynamics between families and their domestic workers exist everywhere, to different degrees.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

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