all the people employed by a particular organization
a staff of 600
hospital staff were not to blame
a group of officers assisting an officer in command of an army formation or administration headquarters
the Polish General and his staff
after the Second World War he took up a string of staff appointments
a long stick used as a support when walking or climbing or as a weapon
a shepherd's staff
he adopted literature as the staff of his pilgrimage
a mixture of plaster of Paris, cement, or a similar material, used for temporary building work
a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure
to support all this, an intricate system of beams and additional staves became necessary
a set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch
above the stave are the signs indicating the rhythm
imagine an eight bar phrase written on a stave