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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 ratings do not consider personnel changes on the roster or coaching staffs. — Loren Maxwell, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026 The Pittsburgh Penguins announced the coaching staffs for their American Hockey League and ECHL affiliates ahead of the 2026-27 season. — Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2026 Many utilities operate with small staffs, so remote connections allow an employee to monitor a distant pump or tank, receive an alarm after hours or let a vendor diagnose equipment without traveling to every site. — William Akoto, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 Cocobolo rosewood, Dalbergia retusa, is particularly favored for carving ceremonial staffs used in traditional medicine and commercial art depicting tropical plants and animals. — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 Graham and some of this congregation brought ice cream to their staffs — teenagers mostly, some of whom likely worked the weekend shift and heard the shots and screams next door. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 4 Aug. 2026 Skubal slides into a star-studded rotation, fueling belief the Dodgers now boast one of the best pitching staffs in baseball history. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026 The news and editorial staffs of the Orlando Sentinel had no role in this post’s preparation. — Ascend Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026 The former Soviet Union, East Germany, and pre-1990s China doubtless had lots of experts on their staffs, surely more than Warsh will, but this didn’t enhance the quality of the central plans. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The winners of the AI era will not be the firms with the largest workforces.

— Manish Gupta, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Industries may handle their workforces differently based on a variety of factors.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of workforces

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Pruning In winter, when canes are done producing fruit for the season, prune the canes that bore fruit down to the base of the plant so new ones will grow in the spring.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026
Sales of Cardinal’s consumer healthcare products, such as crutches, canes and its Leader brand of cough drops and other over-the-counter medications, are also reported here.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of canes

Noun

Wherever the water stands in pools, and by the edges of the lakes and bayous, the giant cypress loom aloft, rivaled in size by some of the red gums and white oaks.

— Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
There are often needs to consolidate, scale, access new pools of capital or bring in outside expertise, which can require a family to cede some degree of company control.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of pools

Noun

Some pushed against barricades and scuffled with police, who responded by firing tear gas rounds, using water cannon and beating them with batons, TV footage showed.

— Reuters, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2026
For 15 minutes, officers used batons and stun guns to subdue King.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of batons

Noun

More damaging, employees gradually learn that raising concerns means navigating the leader's emotional reaction before addressing the actual issue.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Or, that some of those same city employees would set up web cameras so that hundreds of residents could watch the baby falcons grow up in their nest on a ledge outside City Hall.

— Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of employees

Noun

Caltrans said that can prevent construction crews from working in the affected area for several days.

— Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
As the plane circled and prepared to return to the airport and emergency crews assembled, operations workers found the remains of the birds on the runway.

— Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of crews

Noun

The aid workers who once regularly visited her village to help pregnant women had stopped coming, after foreign aid cuts by the United States shuttered a program aimed at saving mothers’ and babies’ lives.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
The idea is for tech workers to live and work in the same building.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

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