Staff may refer to:
Pole
* Staff, a weapon used in
stick-fighting
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Quarterstaff, a European pole weapon
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Staff of office
A staff of office is a staff, the carrying of which often denotes an official's position, a social rank or a degree of social prestige.
Apart from the ecclesiastical and ceremonial usages mentioned below, there are less formal usages. A gold- or ...
, a pole that indicates a position
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Staff (railway signalling), a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track
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Level staff, also called levelling rod, a graduated rod for comparing heights
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Fire staff, a staff of wood or metal and Kevlar, used for fire dancing and performance
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Flagstaff, on which a flag is flown
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Scout staff
A Scout staff (or Scout stave) is a shoulder-high wooden pole or quarterstaff, traditionally carried by Boy Scouts as part of their accoutrements. Its main purpose was as a walking stick or Trekking pole, but it had a number of other uses in emer ...
, a tall pole traditionally used by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency
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Pilgrim's staff, a walking stick used by pilgrims during their pilgrimages
Military
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Staff (military)
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military u ...
, the organ of military command and planning
* , a United States Navy minesweeper
* Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm
tank gun
A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. Modern tank guns are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles. Anti-aircraft guns can also ...
shell
People
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Staff (name), a list of people with either the surname or nickname
Other uses
* People in
employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any othe ...
within any organization
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Staff (music), a set of five horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation
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Staff (building material) (short for ''staffieren''), an artificial stone product used as ornament
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Jack Staff, British superhero
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
, a county in England
* Staff, a nickname for the
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
See also
* ''
Celastrus'', a shrub genus commonly known as the staff vine or staff tree
* ''
Staphylococcus
''Staphylococcus'' is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the family Staphylococcaceae from the order Bacillales. Under the microscope, they appear spherical (cocci), and form in grape-like clusters. ''Staphylococcus'' species are facultative ...
'', often shortened to "staph", bacteria which can cause infection
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