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  2. Staff - Wikipedia

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    Staff of office, 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 staff of wood or metal and Kevlar, used for fire dancing and performance

  3. Quarterstaff - Wikipedia

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    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 shaft of hardwood from 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) long, sometimes with a metal tip, ferrule , or spike ...

  4. Staff and line - Wikipedia

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    Staff and line are names given to different types of functions in organizations. A line function is one that directly advances an organization in its core work. [1] This always includes production and sales, and sometimes marketing. [2] A staff function supports the organization with specialized advisory and support functions. [3]

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a room for staff to take their breaks in; a staffroom (US: breakroom) a room in a public place, containing a toilet retainer amount of money paid in order to retain the services of another, a person who part of a retinue a device for straightening teeth (UK: brace) retreat

  6. Staff (music) - Wikipedia

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    A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

  7. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 2005, The New York Times published an article titled "Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu". [9] The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British, [10] although the Oxford English Dictionary gives its origin and first recorded use as the U.S ...

  8. Category : Positions within the British Royal Household

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    British Empire portal; United Kingdom portal; This category is meant for both individual appointments and collective bodies, such as guard corps, that are part of the civilian, military or ecclesiastical household of the British monarchy, including those specific to either England or Scotland, both professional and occasional.

  9. Temporary work - Wikipedia

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    In Mexico, a temporary employee is, "prohibited to perform the same work as regular employee", [14] making temporary work illegal. Gig economy-based temporary work is prevalent around the world. Uber, for example, operates in North, Central, and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, East, South, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New ...