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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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staff

/stɑːf/

US pronunciation
American sound/stɑːf/
staff
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Open ah vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> staff

Myanmar meaning

(n) ဝန်ထမ်းအင်အား

Full entry

staff /stɑ:f; US stæf / n

၁။ (က) [C usu sing , Gp] လုပ်ငန်း တစ်ရပ်ရှိ အမှုထမ်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအင်အား စုစုပေါင်း။ အမှုထမ်း အင်အား။ ဝန်ထမ်းအင်အား။ the hotel staff ❍ a staff of ten ❍ We need more staff in the office. ❍ We have 20 part-time members of staff. ❍ The staff in this shop are very helpful. ❍ staff shortages in the catering industry ❍ They have had to take on/lay off a lot of staff. (ခ) [pl v ] ကျောင်းတစ်ကျောင်း၏ ဆရာ(ဆရာမ)အင်အား။ a head teacher and her staff ❍ a new member of (the) staff ❍ a staff room/meeting.
၂။ [C usu sing , Gp] တပ်မှူးတစ်ဦး၏ ဦးစီးအရာရှိများ။ the general staff ❍ a staff officer.
၃။ (also stave ) [C] (music ) ဂီတသင်္ကေတရေးရန် မျဉ်းပြိုင် ငါးကြောင်းအစုံ။ ❍ CLEF
၄။ [C] (dated or fml ) တောင်ဝှေး (သို့) ကျိုင်း။ The old man leant on a long wooden staff. ❍ He entered holding his staff of office. Compare STAVE n ၁
v အမှုထမ်းခန့်အပ်သည် (သို့) ရုံးလုပ်ငန်း စသည်တွင် တာဝန်ယူ အမှုထမ်းလျက်ရှိသည်။ The school is staffed entirely by graduates. ❍ There's nobody to staff the office today.
❍ a well-staffed hotel ❍ a fully-staffed department. See also SHORT-STAFFED
❏ staffing n [U] အမှုထမ်းဆိုင်ရာ။ ဝန်ထမ်းဆိုင်ရာ။ staffingarrangements/levels
/problems.
❏ staff nurse n (Brit ) သူနာပြုဆရာမ။
❏ staff sergeant n (က) (Brit ) အကြီးတန်း၊ ဝါရင့်တပ်ကြပ် ကြီး။
(ခ) (US ) တပ်ကြပ်ကြီးအဆင့်ထက် တစ်ဆင့်မြင့် သော အကြပ်အဆင့်။

More examples
  • It is a small hospital with a staff of just over a hundred.
  • The staff are not happy about the new arrangement.
  • [full-time/part-time staff] : The embassy employs around 50 people on its full-time staff.
  • [join the staff] : She joined the staff in 1996.
  • [a member of staff] : Peter became a very valued member of staff.
  • We need better communication between management and staff.
  • Staff and residents enjoyed the show.
  • Recreational facilities for students and staff
  • A staff restaurant/canteen
  • [a staff shortage] : They blame staff shortages for the delay.
  • A staff of office
Synonyms
employees, personnel, workers, workforce, team, organization, body, force, human resources, agents, assistants, baton, cadre, cane, cast, club, control, crew, deputies, faculty, help, man, officers, operate, operatives, pikestaff, pole, prop, rod, run, servants, shop, stave, stick, supervise, teachers, walking stick, wand, work, work force
Antonyms
incompetence
Cross references
employeespersonnelworkersworkforceteamorganizationbodyforcehuman resourcesagentsassistantsbatoncadrecanecastclubcontrolcrewdeputiesfacultyhelpmanofficersoperateoperativespikestaffpoleprop
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