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staffsnounor stavespl. of staff a body of persons at work or available for workwe're working with a short staff at the office today forces, help, labor forces, manpowers, personnels, pools, workforces labors, proletariats, rank and filesbands, companies, crews, gangs, outfits, parties, squads, teamsemployees(also employes), helpers, hirelings, workersbloodsupports a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishmentcarried a staff for self-defense when walking alone at night bastinadoes(or bastinades), batons, bats, billies, billy clubs, bludgeons, canes, clubs, cudgels, nightsticks, rods, rungs(Scottish), saps, shillelaghs(also shillalahs), truncheons, waddies(Australian) blackjacks, knobkerries, macesbirches, crabsticks, hickories, rattans, staves, switchesbeetles, gavels, hammers, mallets, mauls, sledgehammerscrooks, crosiers(or croziers), walking sticks, whangees |