staffs
Rods or workers
Staffs is the plural of staff in most senses: walking sticks, groups of employees, or the vertical lines of musical notation.
A hospital has multiple staffs across its departments.
The older plural staves persists mainly for wooden rods and in musical contexts, though staffs has largely displaced it.
As a verb, staffs means to provide with personnel: She staffs the front desk on weekends.
Thin piece of wood
- poleCylindrical shaft or extremity
- caneStick for support
- batonSlender rod for leading
- rodThin rigid stick
scepter · mace · stave · shaft · quarterstaff · crozier · caduceus · crook
Barrel's wooden rib
- notationSystem of written symbols
- clefStaff pitch indicator
- trebleHigh frequency range
- bassDeep pitch or fish
bar · measure · score · transcription · quaver · crotchet · minim · semibreve
All available workers
- personnelWorkers at an organization
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- colleaguesProfessional associates
- coworkersPeople at same job
managers · supervisors · administrators · clerks · assistants · executives · interns · technicians
stick
Thin piece of wood
rod · scepter · mace · stave · shaft · quarterstaff · crozier · caduceus · crook · pike
stave
Barrel's wooden rib
bass · bar · measure · score · transcription · quaver · crotchet · minim · semibreve · rest
workforce
All available workers
- personnelWorkers at an organization
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- colleaguesProfessional associates
coworkers · managers · supervisors · administrators · clerks · assistants · executives · interns · technicians · professionals
crutch
Mobility aid for injured
- tribal artifactstribal artifacts, ceremonial regalia, tribal jewelry, tribal patterns, woven baskets
- LARP gearfoam swords, bracers, tabards, tunics, wands
- Wizard StuffGandalf, Merlin, Harry Potter, Hermione, wands
- magical imagerywands, wizards, witches, spells, potions
- sheep farmingsheep farming, sheep ranching, shepherding, shearing, lambing
- African artifactsAfrican masks, African art, tribal masks, tribal art, ritual objects
staffsindividuals
Separate, distinct people
freelancers · independent contractors · employees · workers · persons
staffsmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
leadership · executives · employers · bosses · owners
- half staffLowered flag position
- staff meetingWorkplace group assembly
- chief of staffHighest-ranking administrative assistant
- staff rosterRecord of workers employed
- wait staffRestaurant serving employees
- support staffWorkers aiding main operations
staff, staffed, staffing, staffer, staffers, understaffed, overstaffed, overstaffing, understaffing