Staff vs Bossnapping - What's the difference?
staff | bossnapping |
(label) A long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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, chapter=4, title= A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
(label) The employees of a business.
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, title= (label) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*Sir (c.1564-1627)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(label) The rung of a ladder.
* Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(label) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(label) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
A means of social action in which staff kidnap or surround a corporate executive until demands are met.
As a proper noun staff
is .As a noun bossnapping is
a means of social action in which staff kidnap or surround a corporate executive until demands are met.staff
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(wikipedia staff)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff .}}
Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', passage=Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".}}
- Methought this staff , mine office badge in court, / Was broke in twain.
- All his officers brake their staves'; but at their return new ' staves were delivered unto them.
- I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves .
- Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.