Usually means: Basic, essential item or ingredient.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word staple:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. staple: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. staple, staple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. staple, staple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. staple: Collins English Dictionary
  5. staple: Vocabulary.com
  6. Staple, staple: Wordnik
  7. staple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. staple: Wiktionary
  9. staple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. staple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. staple: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. staple: Dictionary.com
  13. staple (1), staple (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. staple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Staple (band), Staple (fastener), Staple (textiles), Staple (wool), Staple, The Staple, The staple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Staple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. staple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. staple: Rhymezone
  19. staple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. staple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. staple: Free Dictionary
  22. staple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Staple: The Word Detective
  24. staple: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Staple: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. staple: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. staple: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STAPLE, Staple: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. staple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Staple (fastener), staple: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STAPLE: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. staple: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
noun:  (by extension) Place of supply; source.
noun:  The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
noun:  A basic or essential supply.
noun:  A recurring topic or character.
noun:  Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
noun:  Unmanufactured material; raw material.
verb:  (transitive) To sort according to its staple.
adjective:  Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
adjective:  Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
adjective:  Fit to be sold; marketable.
adjective:  Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
noun:  A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
noun:  A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
noun:  A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
noun:  One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
noun:  (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
noun:  A small pit.
noun:  A district granted to an abbey.
noun:  (obsolete) A post; prop; support
verb:  (transitive) To secure with a staple.
noun:  A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2756).
noun:  A habitational surname from Middle English.

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