2021年1月22日 · In an article I am reading from Bloomberg Businessweek, there is a use of "staffs". I thought staff is a collective noun and has no plural. The full sentence reads. Companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and DoorDash Inc. have established or expanded programs allowing employers to distribute meal credits to their staffs."

2016年6月20日 · My recollection, which is not as reliable as it used to be, is that "staffs" is always plural for "staff" in British English (two staff members are two staffs), and most American English speakers use "staff" for both singular and plural. However, I sometimes hear the word "staffers" coming out of WDC news stories.

2008年1月17日 · 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.)

2010年9月21日 · When the publisher of the computer magazine I worked on decided to combine that magazine's staff with the staff of another computer magazine that the publisher owned, the process was referred to as "merging staffs." At any rate, that situation is one in which staffs as the plural of staff appears to be correct in the sense of "in common U.S ...

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.

2011年7月18日 · However, there are cases where it makes sense to use a plural form of a quantity noun. Chiefly this occurs in the cases where there are multiple different and distinct groups of the objects in question. This could well be argued to be the case where you are talking about the staffs of several different people.

2019年2月21日 · Which is correct in the following example? "The following staff are/is (?) absent today: John Doe Jane Doe Bob Doe"

2014年4月29日 · I do see staffs used in the plural sometimes nowadays, which I didn't in the past. I think there may be a change brewing, but for the moment would recommend holding back and using staff, and members of staff for a plural, Rover's not so common case excepted.

2011年1月21日 · In that case staffs'. L. learnerenglish77 Member. Thread starter Joined Dec 30, 2010 Member Type

2012年4月23日 · Which of these is correct? 1. The staff at the school is very efficient. 2. The staff at the school are very efficient. 3. The staffs at the school are very efficient.