Staff

Staff may mean:

• Staff (stick), a stick or pole to help with walking, or to use as a weapon.
• Employees, a group of people who work for a firm or other organization.
• Staff (music) (or stave), five horizontal lines used for writing musical notes.
• Staff of office, a stick or pole used for ceremony by someone important.
• Staff (building material), artificial stone product for ornamental uses.
• Staff (military), the people of military command and planning.
• 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 is a safeworking apparatus used on single track railways.

NB The plural of “staff” is staves. The word stave can also be used as a singular noun to mean:

• a single staff (music).
• a curved wooden member which is used with others to form the side of a barrel.