Staff may refer to:

• Staff (stick), a stick or pole to assist with walking, or sometimes used as a weapon.
• Staff (building material), artificial stone product used for ornamental purposes.
• Musical staff, a set of horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation.
• Staff of office, a stick or pole used for ceremony or designating official status.
• General Staff, the organ of military command and planning.
• Jacob's staff, a tool used in surveying.
• Quarterstaff, a long pole used as a Medieval weapon.
• bowstaff (see Bo (weapon)), a long stick used as a weapon, usually in Japaneese martial arts.
• Leopold Staff (1878–1957), a Polish poet.
• Gun (staff), a weapon in Chinese martial arts.

Staff as an acronym may refer to:

• Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm tank gun shell.

Staff is also used to refer collectively to a set of people, such as the employees or volunteers, within an organization.

Staves is a plural noun form of staff and redirects here, however when used in the singular sense, stave may also mean:

• a single musical staff.
• a curved wooden member which is used with others to form the side of a barrel.

See also

• Staph, a bacteria which can cause infection.

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