staffとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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; a stave.
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.

   The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paid staff.

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

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

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

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     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.
   • 1739, John Campbell, The Travels and Adventures of Edward Bevan, Esq.

     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.
   • 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     , Dedication

     Mr. Cowley had 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

参考

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.

派生語

• staffer
• staffing

名詞

staff

1. Misspelling of staph.

アナグラム

• taffs