Phrase Hound found 124 phrases and 72 compound words that contain staff. The most common are listed below. Open staff in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 124
- chief of staffThe senior officer of any of several services of the armed forces of several nations.
- staff of lifeBread or some other staple foodstuff.
- general staffA group of officers in charge of an army under the control of the commander-in-chief.
- Staff development
- Academic staff
- Medical staff
- member of staffAn employee in an organisation.
- members of staffplural of member of staff: An employee in an organisation.
- Teaching staff
- half-staffHalf-mast.
- level staffA graduated rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level.
- Staff Writer
- Coaching staff
- ground staffstaff employed by an airline, or an airport, that work on the ground, as opposed to aircrews.
- flag-staffAlternative form of flagstaff: A pole on which a flag is raised.
- staff officerAn officer who fulfills a non-combat support function, often in a headquarters or planning office.
- air staffThe chief commander, flag officers, and bureau in charge of a military's air branch; the headquarters general staff of an air force.
- staff collegeA college where military officers are trained in the higher branches of professional knowledge, and prepared for holding staff appointments.
- staff systemA block system in use on single-line railways, in which the stationmaster gives the driver a staff authorizing the driver to proceed over a given portion of track.
- Nursing staff
- Hotel staff
- cross-staffAn archbishop's cross.
- wait staffAlternative form of waitstaff: Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.
- staff functionAny secondary business activity that supports the line functions of a business, but does not directly affect customers or profits
- Back-staff
Compound words 72
- flagstaffA pole on which a flag is raised.
- waitstaffCollectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.
- quarterstaffA wooden staff with an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern period.
- LongstaffA surname transferred from the nickname.
- barstaffThe staff of a bar.
- whipstaffA bar, going through the poopdeck, attached perpendicularly to the tiller for steering a ship.
- airstaffThe staff of a radio station whose voices are broadcast.
- cowlstaffA staff used to carry a cowl or other burden, especially held by two people on their shoulders.
- constaffThe staff that operates a convention, or meeting of fans.
- misstaffTo staff inappropriately, to hire for the wrong types of positions.