Staff may refer to:

Pole

Walking staff A walking stick (also known as a walking cane, cane, walking staff, or staff) is a device used primarily to aid walking, provide postural stability or support, or assist in maintaining a good posture. Some designs also serve as a fashion access ...

, an instrument used for balance when walking * Staff, a weapon used in

stick-fighting Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting, is a variety of martial arts which use blunt, hand-held "sticks" for fighting, most typically a simple, non-lethal, wooden staff or baton. Schools of stick-fighting exist for a variety of weapon ...

Quarterstaff A quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European polearm, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period. The term is generally accepted to refer to a s ...

, a European pole weapon *

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 * Staff (railway signalling), a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track * Level staff, also called levelling rod, a graduated rod for comparing heights *

Fire staff A fire staff is a staff constructed out of wood or metal with Kevlar wick added to one or both ends. Fire staffs are used for fire performance. Manipulation There are two predominant styles for manipulating a fire staff: rotational and cont ...

, a staff of wood or metal and Kevlar, used for fire dancing and performance * Flagstaff, on which a flag is flown * Scout staff, a shoulder-high pole traditionally carried by Boy Scouts, for various uses in emergencies *

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

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 120×570mm NATO tank ammunition (4.7 inch), also known as 120×570mmR, is a common, NATO-standard (STANAG 4385), tank gun semi-combustible cartridge used by 120mm smoothbore guns, superseding the earlier 105×617mmR cartridge used in NATO-stand ...

tank gun shell

People

Staff (name) Staff is both a surname and a nickname A nickname, in some circumstances also known as a sobriquet, or informally a "moniker", is an informal substitute for the proper name of a person, place, or thing, used to express affection, playfulness, co ...

, 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. *

Staff (music) In Western musical notation, the staff"staff" in the Collins English D ...

, a set of five horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation *

Staff (building material) Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings. It is chiefly made of plaster of Paris (powdered gypsum), with a little cement, glycerin, and dextrin, mixed with water until it is about as thick a ...

(short for ''staffieren''), an artificial stone product used as ornament *

Jack Staff ''Jack Staff'' is a British superhero created by comic book writer/artist Paul Grist. While the title character is billed as "Britain's Greatest Hero", the series is known for being in the style of an anthology title and featuring an ensemble c ...

, British superhero *

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 ...

Pole

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