• Croatian: štap
• Dutch: staf
• Finnish: sauva
• French: staff , canne
• German: Stab
• Hebrew: מַקֵּל
• Ido: bastono
• Indonesian: toya
• Italian: bastone
• Spanish: bastón , báculo

• Dutch: balk , notenbalk
• Finnish: nuottiviivasto
• French: portée
• German: Notenlinien f|p
• Italian: pentagramma
• Spanish: varas f|p

Verb

1. to supply (a business) with employees

Translations

• Danish: forsyne med personale
• French: doter en personnel

French

Noun

1. A staff (cane, walking stick).

Staff may refer to:

• Staff (stick), a stick or pole to assist with walking, or sometimes used as a weapon
• Staff (building material), artificial stone product used for ornamental purposes
• Staff (music), a set of horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation
• Staff of office, a stick or pole used for ceremony or designating official status
• Staff (military), the organ of military command and planning
• Staff, a set of people, such as the employees or volunteers, within an organization
• Jacob's staff, a tool used in surveying
• Quarterstaff, a long pole used as a Medieval weapon
• Bō, a long stick used as a weapon, usually in Japanese martial arts
• Leopold Staff (1878–1957), a Polish poet
• Gun (staff), a weapon in Chinese martial arts
• Staff (railway), a safeworking apparatus used on single track railways
• Staff, a nickname for the Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Staff as an acronym may refer to:

• Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm tank gun shell

Staves is a plural noun form of staff; however when used in the singular sense, stave may also mean:

• a single musical staff
• a curved wooden member which is used with others to form the side of a barrel

See also

• Staph, bacteria which can cause infection

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