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Antonyms for staff
stæf, stɑfstaff

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. staffnoun

    to supply (a business) with employees

    Synonyms:
    personnel, stave

  2. staffnoun

    A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.

    Synonyms:
    personnel, stave

  3. staffnoun

    The employees of a business.

    The company employed 10 new staff this month.

    Synonyms:
    stave, personnel

  4. staffnoun

    A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering (see Wikipedia article)

    Synonyms:
    personnel, stave

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. staffnoun

    personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task

    "the hospital has an excellent nursing staff"; "the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions"

    Synonyms:
    stave, faculty

  2. staffnoun

    a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose

    "he walked with the help of a wooden staff"

    Synonyms:
    stave, faculty

  3. staff, facultynoun

    the body of teachers and administrators at a school

    "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"

    Synonyms:
    stave, module, mental faculty, faculty

  4. staffnoun

    building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

    Synonyms:
    stave, faculty

  5. staffnoun

    a rod carried as a symbol

    Synonyms:
    stave, faculty

  6. staff, staveverb

    (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

    Synonyms:
    stave, round, rung, faculty, lag

  7. staffverb

    provide with staff

    "This position is not always staffed"

  8. staffverb

    serve on the staff of

    "The two men staff the reception desk"

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. staffnoun

    Synonyms:
    rod, stick, cane, truncheon, mace, crozier, support, bourdon

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. staff

    Synonyms:
    Medical staff, see there

How to use staff in a sentence?

  1. Nathan Morton:

    I had staff members that were abused by ministers when they were younger. Ministers got shuttled from one place to the other. Now theres some positive, proactive issues and resolutions coming up thats made us a greater and stronger denomination.

  2. Andrew Jones:

    This culture’s strong, the coaching staff is strong, and players just got to come along with it and trust it.

  3. Congressman Deutch:

    I am deeply concerned with documents that have been turned over by HHS that record a high number of sexual assaults on unaccompanied children in the custody of the Office of Refugee and Refugee Resettlement, together, these documents detail an environment of systemic sexual assaults by staff on unaccompanied children.

  4. Jack Keane:

    It should have been done this year or, even better, next year. That would enable the staff to tee up the major issues of contention that we have as well as those issues that we may have some commonality and agreement on.

  5. Jonathan Thornton:

    He's not the only one, so you're going to have, maybe not a generation, but you're going to have quite a few kids that have not learned to swim because of this, because you don't have lifeguards, because you don't have staff.

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