(n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
(n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
(n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
(n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(n.) The round of a ladder.
(n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
(n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
(n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
(n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(4) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(6) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(7) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(9) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(10) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(11) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(12) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(13) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
(14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(15) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(16) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(17) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(18) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
(19) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(20) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
Warder
Definition:
(n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
(n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told me they had a particularly vicious warder called Van Rensburg who displayed a swastika on his arm.
(2) Meanwhile Huhne, who is in Wandsworth prison, was ridiculed on his first day in jail when a warder called him to breakfast shouting: "Order!
(3) Many institutions that appeared to have emerged autonomously, such Index on Censorship, the Butler Trust for prison warders, or the Minority Rights Group, were the fruits of David's seed.
(4) As for giving prisoners "support", I wouldn't like to be the warder offering a stick of nicotine gum to a con he's just divested of 20 full-strength Marlboros.
(5) According to Fahmy, warders laughed off his injury, telling him "it's OK because I'm a journalist and I only need to type.
(6) They used to have a tradition: each warder would select a prisoner who was their "handy boy" who would carry their flask and their lunchbox.
(7) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(8) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
(9) All it needs is a warder outside with a mobile phone to call the inside staff and say: “It’s the end cell on The Twos” or whatever and it stops.
(10) Yet their son said that despite the grim conditions, he has not seen any evidence of mistreatment, and both of his parents have befriended their warders.
(11) This is why they [warders] very casually beat people up.
(12) We were locked up in cells with a window to the corridor, but two panes were removed so we could talk to the warder.
(13) To determine whether Sertoli cells and gonocytes are functionally coupled in the cocultures, we used the glass bead-loading technique of McNeil and Warder to introduce Lucifer yellow (LY), a gap junction-permeant probe, and Rhodamine-dextran (RD), a larger marker excluded by gap junctions, simultaneously into cultures 24 h after plating.
(14) When Greyson and Loubani arrived at Tora, warders purposely left the three-dozen men inside the cramped truck, so that they might overheat in the blazing Cairo sun.
(15) As the judge told the court warder to take him down, Illsley gave a small wave to his supporter, picked up his coat and holdall and headed for the cells.
(16) Many years later, in 1995, Mandela – delivering the first annual lecture in memory of the Communist party leader Bram Fischer, who was his defence counsel at Rivonia – drew roars of laughter by recalling his dismay when he sought comfort from a friendly warder on the eve of sentencing.
(17) Warder Clyde Allee, (1885-1955) was a pioneer American scientist in the fields of ecology and animal behavior.
(18) The ordering of your day-to-day life depended on your interaction with the warders.
(19) Here he joined hundreds of others on the " blanket protest " – refusing to wear a prison uniform and call warders "sir".
(20) There was a warder, we called him Suitcase, but his name was Van Rensburg; he had a swastika on his hand.