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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 12:11, column 2:

     And thus ſhall ye eate it [the lamb]: with your loines girded, your ſhooes on your feet, and your ſtaffe in your hand: and ye ſhall eate it in haſte: it is the Lords Paſſeouer.

   • 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 staffs または 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.

   The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.

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

   • 1940 July, “Notes and News: A Magnificent Transport Achievement”, in Railway Magazine, page 419:

     No department of the Southern Railway escaped some share of the work involved, and the outdoor traffic and locomotive staffs in particular were engaged literally night and day, snatching a few hours' sleep as opportunity offered, until the task was completed.

   • 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".

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], page 122, column 2:

     Me thought this ſtaffe mine Office-badge in Court / Was broke in twaine:

   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, OCLC 1287143827:

     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, Virgil, “To the Most Honourable John, Lord Marquess of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, &c. and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, page [192]:

     Mr. Cowley had found out, that no kind of Staff is proper for an Heroick Poem; as being all too lirical:

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.
    • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058, chapter 49, page 217:

      At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him.

同意語

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

派生語

派生した語

• → French: staff
• → Italian: staff
• → Japanese: スタッフ (sutaffu)
• → Korean: 스태프 (seutaepeu)
• → Portuguese: stafe, staff, estafe
• → Spanish: staff

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.
   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:

     Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.

派生語

• staffer
• staffing

名詞

staff

1. Misspelling of staph.

アナグラム

• taffs