Staff

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Staff may refer to:

• Staff (stick), a stick or pole to assist with walking, or sometimes used as a weapon. Often associated with symbolic qualities as well.
• Staff (building material), artificial stone product used as ornament
• 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
• Staff (railway signalling), or token, a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track
• 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, 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

[edit] See also

• Stuff, a group of items or matter
• Staphylococcus, bacteria which can cause infection

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