staffern.²

Brit.

/ˈstɑːfə/,

/ˈstafə/, U.S.

/ˈstæfər/

Etymology: < staff n.¹ + -er suffix¹.

Originally and chiefly U.S.

A member of a staff.

a. Of a newspaper or journal: a staff writer.

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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > staff writer

staff writer1914

staffer1949

1949 Cavalier Daily (Univ. Virginia) 22 Oct. 4/2 Staffers of the Daily Pennsylvanian visited the Princetonian offices following the Penn-Princeton football game.

1952 G. Reinhardt Crime without Punishment 290 He knew..what confidential memos had been passed between the managing editor and publisher of the New York Times—a fact doubtless not known to most Times staffers.

1973 E. B. White Let. 24 May (1976) 648 The story of The New Yorker has yet to be well told. Many staffers were indignant about parts of the Thurber book.

b. More widely, of a business or other organization.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee

employé1811

workhand1821

employe1835

employee1850

employée1862

permanent1863

staff1931

perm1945

staffer1950

hire1954

1950 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add.

1962 Housewife (Ceylon) Apr. 34 (caption) Mr. Neale talks to staffers of a local advertising agency.

1966 Economist 3 Sept. 888/1 Clerks, foremen and other staffers.

1972 M. Glenny tr. A. Solzhenitsyn August 1914 xi. 108 The younger General Staffers of recent vintage all knew each other and stuck together like members of a secret order.

1980 Information Retrieval & Library Automation XVI. 11/2 The issue of April 1980 for example contains a brief but informative report on ‘interlending’ in Czechoslovakia, prepared by a BLL staffer who spent two weeks surveying the Czech scene.

c. spec. of the President of the U.S.; a member of the President's White House staff.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun] > civil servant > member of White House staff

staffer1969

1969 R. Neustadt in A. King Brit. Prime Minister 145 The functional equivalence between a British Cabinet and our set of influentials—whether Secretaries, Senators, White House staffers, Congressmen or others.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 14 Feb. 16/6 The letter was written by a Carter staffer who misrepresented Carter's position.

1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 10/2 Some of the White House staffers at the time looked for a way round it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	staffer
释义	† staffern.¹ Etymology: ? < staff n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Obsolete. rare^—1. ? A kind of peashooter. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 82/2 Playes with Instruments... Shooting in a trunk staffer or spitter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). staffern.² Brit. /ˈstɑːfə/, /ˈstafə/, U.S. /ˈstæfər/ Etymology: < staff n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Originally and chiefly U.S. A member of a staff. a. Of a newspaper or journal: a staff writer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > staff writer staff writer1914 staffer1949 1949 Cavalier Daily (Univ. Virginia) 22 Oct. 4/2 Staffers of the Daily Pennsylvanian visited the Princetonian offices following the Penn-Princeton football game. 1952 G. Reinhardt Crime without Punishment 290 He knew..what confidential memos had been passed between the managing editor and publisher of the New York Times—a fact doubtless not known to most Times staffers. 1973 E. B. White Let. 24 May (1976) 648 The story of The New Yorker has yet to be well told. Many staffers were indignant about parts of the Thurber book. b. More widely, of a business or other organization. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee employé1811 workhand1821 employe1835 employee1850 employée1862 permanent1863 staff1931 perm1945 staffer1950 hire1954 1950 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. 1962 Housewife (Ceylon) Apr. 34 (caption) Mr. Neale talks to staffers of a local advertising agency. 1966 Economist 3 Sept. 888/1 Clerks, foremen and other staffers. 1972 M. Glenny tr. A. Solzhenitsyn August 1914 xi. 108 The younger General Staffers of recent vintage all knew each other and stuck together like members of a secret order. 1980 Information Retrieval & Library Automation XVI. 11/2 The issue of April 1980 for example contains a brief but informative report on ‘interlending’ in Czechoslovakia, prepared by a BLL staffer who spent two weeks surveying the Czech scene. c. spec. of the President of the U.S.; a member of the President's White House staff. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun] > civil servant > member of White House staff staffer1969 1969 R. Neustadt in A. King Brit. Prime Minister 145 The functional equivalence between a British Cabinet and our set of influentials—whether Secretaries, Senators, White House staffers, Congressmen or others. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 14 Feb. 16/6 The letter was written by a Carter staffer who misrepresented Carter's position. 1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 10/2 Some of the White House staffers at the time looked for a way round it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.¹1688n.²1949
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