staffer
an employee of a political organization
TRANSLATION
staffer = Angestellter einer Organisation --- GOOGLE INDEX staffer: approximately 2,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
According to CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, members of the House and Senate and their STAFFERS have held two classified hearings on the attacks in the past few weeks.
(International Business Times)
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White House national security STAFFER fired for Twitter postings
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(International Business Times)
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White House national security STAFFER fired for Twitter postings
(Washington Post news headline)
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staffer
noun
- an employee, often of a political organization
(Cambridge Dictionaries)
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In earlier times, the term staffer was restricted to political and military organizations for the most part. It was, and still is, mainly used to differentiate between the top person in an organization and those who work for him or her. Staff has also long been used to denote newsroom and hospital employees.
Today’s news is full of stories that talk about or directly quote White House staffers, Congressional staffers, Senate staffers, Pentagon staffers, Nr. 10 staffers (Nr. 10 is short for Nr. 10 Downing Street, the office and residence of the UK prime minister) and a myriad of other staffers. These are essentially the people who do most of the work for the office of the politicians that hire them.
Meanwhile, a wide range of government and non-government organizations (NGOs) and businesses have adopted the term staffer to describe employees who carry out general administrative functions for management-level personnel. Generally speaking, employees with specific technical responsibilities (engineers, programmers, etc...) are not called staffers.
The word itself stems from the Old English stæf, which referred to a walking stick or a rod used as a weapon. The sense of a group of military officers that assists a commander is supposedly from the German (Stab), from the notion of the baton as a badge of an office or authority. This sense then expanded to government organizations.
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SYNONYMS
faculty (schools), crew, personnel, work force, assistants, deputies, operatives, officers, workers
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation:
"All staffers in the ministry need special security clearance."
noun
- an employee, often of a political organization
(Cambridge Dictionaries)
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In earlier times, the term staffer was restricted to political and military organizations for the most part. It was, and still is, mainly used to differentiate between the top person in an organization and those who work for him or her. Staff has also long been used to denote newsroom and hospital employees.
Today’s news is full of stories that talk about or directly quote White House staffers, Congressional staffers, Senate staffers, Pentagon staffers, Nr. 10 staffers (Nr. 10 is short for Nr. 10 Downing Street, the office and residence of the UK prime minister) and a myriad of other staffers. These are essentially the people who do most of the work for the office of the politicians that hire them.
Meanwhile, a wide range of government and non-government organizations (NGOs) and businesses have adopted the term staffer to describe employees who carry out general administrative functions for management-level personnel. Generally speaking, employees with specific technical responsibilities (engineers, programmers, etc...) are not called staffers.
The word itself stems from the Old English stæf, which referred to a walking stick or a rod used as a weapon. The sense of a group of military officers that assists a commander is supposedly from the German (Stab), from the notion of the baton as a badge of an office or authority. This sense then expanded to government organizations.
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SYNONYMS
faculty (schools), crew, personnel, work force, assistants, deputies, operatives, officers, workers
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation:
"All staffers in the ministry need special security clearance."
