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- Staff vs. staffs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Shall I interpret "staffs" as different groups of staffers, just like "foods" mean different types of food, and in this context meaning one staff (group of employees) for each of the aforementioned employers (Uber, DoorDash)?
- grammatical number - What is the plural of staff? - English Language . . .
11 Staffs, when you're talking about the staff of Office A and the staff of Office B If you are talking about the kind of staff that Gandalf carries, the plural is staves, which is a word I've always liked
- grammatical number - Does staff take a plural verb? - English . . .
5 Staff (when meaning a group of employees) is a collective noun with no plural So, it's "our staff do good work" When referring to a group of sticks, it's "staffs" in American English and "staffs" or "staves" everywhere else
- Staff or Staffs | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum
Note 2: For staff in the sense of "a body of employees", the plural is always staffs; otherwise, both staffs and staves are acceptable, except in compounds; such as flagstaffs The stave of a barrel or cask is a back-formation from staves, which is its plural (See the Plural to singular by back-formation section below )
- Plural of staff (stick) — staffs or staves? [closed]
16 For staff in the sense of "a body of employees", the plural is always staff; otherwise, both staffs and staves are acceptable, except in compounds, such as flagstaffs Staves is rare in North America except in the sense of "magic rod", or the musical notation tool; stave of a barrel or cask is a back-formation from staves, which is its plural
- Staff are or staff is - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct in the following example? "The following staff are is (?) absent today: John Doe Jane Doe Bob Doe"
- When to use “staffers” vs “staff”? - English Language Usage . . .
A staff is a group of persons under command and control of a single person or an aggregate of persons who operate as a unit A staffer is one member of a staff Complexity comes into this picture in two ways If the term "staffers" meant to be inclusive of all members of a staff with no qualifications this would make the use of the two terms interchangeable since they each refer to the entire
- staff vs staffs | UsingEnglish. com ESL Forum
When discussing more than one establishment, staff is countable provided that each staff refers to one establishment's employees Confusing the issue further, the countable noun staff meaning "a line of music in Western notation" takes different plurals in British and American English: staves and staffs respectively
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