Staff may refer to:
Pole
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Walking staff, an instrument used for balance when walking
* 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 #Eccleasiastical use, ecclesiastical and #Ceremonial, ceremonial usages mentioned below, ther ...
, 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 shoulder-high pole traditionally carried by Boy Scouts, for various uses in emergencies
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Pilgrim's staff
A pilgrim's staff or palmer's staff is a walking stick used by Christian pilgrims during their Christian pilgrimage, pilgrimages, like the Way of St. James to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain or the Via Francigena to Rome. The pilgri ...
, 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 milit ...
, the organ of military command and planning
* , a United States Navy minesweeper
* Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental
120×570mm NATO tank gun 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 party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a cor ...
within any organization, for instance:
** civil staff or civilian staff, referring to an organisation's civilian support staff, often in an otherwise uniformed organisation such as a police service. One notable example is the
civil staff of the
Metropolitan Police Service in London.
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, 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 Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...
, a county in England
* Staff, a nickname for the
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
The Staffordshire Bull Terrier, also called the Staffy or Stafford, is a purebred dog of small to medium size in the terrier group that originated in the northern parts of Birmingham and in the Black Country of Staffordshire, for which it ...
See also
* ''
Celastrus'', a shrub genus commonly known as the staff vine or staff tree
* ''
Staphylococcus
''Staphylococcus'', from Ancient Greek σταφυλή (''staphulḗ''), meaning "bunch of grapes", and (''kókkos''), meaning "kernel" or " Kermes", is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the family Staphylococcaceae from the order Bacillale ...
'', often shortened to "staph", bacteria which can cause infection
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