Usually means: Employees collectively working for organization.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word staff:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. staff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. staff: Merriam-Webster
  3. Staff, staff, staff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. staff, staff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. staff: Collins English Dictionary
  6. staff: Vocabulary.com
  7. Staff, Staff, staff: Wordnik
  8. staff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. staff: Wiktionary
  10. staff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. staff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. staff: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. staff: Dictionary.com
  14. staff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. staff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Staff (building material), Staff (disambiguation), Staff (military), Staff (music), Staff (name), Staff (railway signalling), Staff, The Staff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Staff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. staff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. staff: Rhymezone
  20. staff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. staff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. STAFF: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. STAFF: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Staff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. staff: FreeDictionary.org
  26. staff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. staff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. staff: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. staff: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. STAFF: Band Terms
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Staff: Eastern Philosophy
  5. Staff: Dictionary of Symbolism
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. staff: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Staff (military), staff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. staff: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. staff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. STAFF: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. staff: Idioms
  4. Staff: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. staff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. staff: The Folk File
  3. staff: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See staffed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
noun:  (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
noun:  (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
noun:  (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
noun:  A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
noun:  A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
noun:  (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
noun:  A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
noun:  (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
noun:  (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (rail transport, archaic) A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
verb:  (transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
noun:  Misspelling of staph. [Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.]

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