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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 On the first Saturday of the 2026 college football season, several games around the country featured record-breaking temperatures that tested players, coaching staffs and fans in the stands. — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 7 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 Larger, older cities toward the core of the Phoenix metro tend to have more taxpayers, deeper pockets, larger staffs and a long history of securing access to different sources of water. — Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026 The parliamentarian’s office advises legislators and their staffs, committees, and each chamber’s presiding officer on legislative procedure and precedent. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 Lawmakers and their staffs — many of them aware of that pressure — have been hearing from hospital leaders constantly about their fears about the implementation of the cuts. — Daniel Payne, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026 That means coach Sean Payton, general manager George Paton and their staffs will go essentially right from the game to finalizing their 53-man roster. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2026 In Dolphins @ Raiders, new coaching staffs bring Miami's aggressive 4-3 D-line against Kirk Cousins' pocket needs, contrasting with the Raiders' transitioning 3-4. — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 Significant layoffs by companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco played a role in the reversal in the rankings, with New York companies in the finance and AI sectors bulking up their staffs. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Now, advanced and sophisticated products are helping growing companies extend the impact of their existing workforces in ways that previously weren’t realistically attainable.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
The companies with the most resilient workforces have made investment in employee trajectory a structural commitment, not a line item that disappears when headcount pressure arrives.

— Susan LaMotte, Forbes.com, 18 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

Combination plans cover both, often with optional add-ons for items such as pools or septic systems.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
Yet, despite having pristine pools of first-party consumer insights, many CDPs remain passive archives—costly repositories of record that store data rather than act on it in real time.

— Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of pools

Noun

The Unbadged invited people to submit videos of personnel who used batons and tear gas against protestors without wearing a name badge, which police are legally required to wear.

— Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026
The young fan confronted the officers, who hit him with batons before detaining him.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

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Today, the paper operates with about 50 full-time employees and freelancers, a major decline from years past when the staff was in the hundreds.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
The restaurant said employees who worked that day were vaccinated against the disease and being monitored.

— Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of employees

Noun

For example, an investor could search for cities in the Sunbelt, the Midwest or specialized college towns experiencing steady inbound migration of young professionals and hybrid workers.

— Justin Donald, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
According to new Gallup polling, 27% of US workers worry that technology will render their jobs obsolete, a new high.

— Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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