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Staff may refer to:

Rods

• Staff of office, a stick 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
• Flagstaff, on which a flag is flown
• Marotte, a staff with a carved image of a head at the tip used by a Jester
• The weapon used in stick fighting
  • Quarterstaff, a long pole used as a medieval weapon
  • Bō, a long stick used as a weapon, usually in Japanese martial arts
  • Gun (staff), a weapon in Chinese martial arts
• Walking stick, a device to facilitate balancing while walking
• Sceptre or scepter, a symbolic ornamental rod borne in the hand by a ruling monarch
• Scout staff, a tall stick traditionally used by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency
• Wand, a thin, straight, hand-held ceremonial stick
• Shepherd's crook
• A divining rod used in rhabdomancy

People

• Staff (name)

Other uses

• People in employment within any organization
• Staff (military), the organ of military command and planning
• Staff (music), a set of five horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation
• Staff (building material) (short for staffieren), an artificial stone product used as ornament
• Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm tank gun shell
• Staff writer, a byline denoting an author employed by the publisher
• Staff, a nickname for the Staffordshire Bull Terrier
• Baton sinister, a charge used in heraldry

See also

• Stuff (disambiguation), a group of items or matter
• Staphylococcus, bacteria which can cause infection
• Stave (disambiguation)
• Shaft (disambiguation)
• Stick (disambiguation)