Staple may mean:

• Staple (fastener), a formed metal fastener used to secure sheets of material or wires
• Staple food, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet. It is a standard commodity rather than a speciality item.
• Staple (textiles) is the raw material, or its length and quality, of fibre from which textiles are made. It is the material in its standard form as a traded commodity.
• The Staple Singers, a United States gospel, soul, and R&B singing group.
• Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band.
• STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics, minicomics, and other independent media

Places

• A Staple port was one in which trade in specified goods was regulated. The term is a medieval one. Normally the king licensed a particular group of merchants to trade in the commodity, in an area such as his kingdom and their trading had to be done in the staple town or port.
• The Staple was Calais.
• Staple, Nord (pronunciation: stohpl) is a commune in the Nord département of France. This is the name in its Flemish form.
• Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, is another place in which the word appears but in its French form.
• Staple, Kent is a village in Kent, England near Sandwich.

See also

• Staples