staffとは

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: stäf, IPA^(key): /stɑːf/
• Rhymes: -ɑːf
• (North America, Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈstæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

名詞

staff (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 staffs または staves または staff)

A musical staff

1. (複数形 staffs または staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.

2. (music, 複数形 staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
3. (複数形 staff または staffs) The employees of a business.
   • 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:

     Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".

   The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.

4. (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.^W
5. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.

   a constable's staff

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, / Was broke in twain.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir John Hayward

     All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.

6. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
7. (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels)

     I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.

8. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.

9. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
10. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
11. (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.

同意語

• (piece of wood): See Thesaurus:stick
• (music): stave
• (employees): personnel

派生語

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動詞

staff (三人称単数 現在形 staffs, 現在分詞 staffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 staffed)

1. (transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

名詞

staff

1. Misspelling of staph.

アナグラム

• taffs