Staff vs Collective - What's the difference?
staff | collective |
(label) A long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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(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.
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
(obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly'', ''army'', ''jury , etc.
Tending to collect; forming a collection.
* Young
Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
A farm owned by a collection of people.
(especially, in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
(grammar) A collective noun or name.
(by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
* 2005 , Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Theory in contemporary art since 1985 (page 76)
As a proper noun staff
is .As an adjective collective is
formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.As a noun collective is
a farm owned by a collection of people.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.
Synonyms
* (music) stave * (employees) personnel * See alsoDerived terms
*See also
* truncheon * club * cudgel * stick * baton * bludgeon * rod * canecollective
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Adjective
(-)- critical and collective reason
- Local is his throne to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.
Derived terms
* collectiveness * collectivelyNoun
(en noun)- There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.