Staff

A staff is a simple club or truncheon weapon

Staff may refer to:

Pole

• 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
• Flagstaff, on which a flag is flown
• Scout staff, a tall pole traditionally used by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency

Military

• Staff (military), the organ of military command and planning
• USS Staff (AM-114), a United States Navy minesweeper
• Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm tank gun shell

People

• Staff (name), a list of people with either the surname or nickname

Other uses

• People in employment within any organization
• 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
• Jack Staff, British superhero
• Staff, a nickname for the Staffordshire Bull Terrier

See also

• Celastrus, a shrub genus commonly known as the staff vine or staff tree
• Staphylococcus, often shortened to "staph", bacteria which can cause infection