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ground staffnoun [treated as singular or plural]1British The people employed by a sports club to maintain the playing area, buildings, and equipment: the excellent ground staff mark the pitch...- Working with the local professional club has already enabled them to improve its playing surfaces, through employing expert ground staff.
- Today, ground staff were working to repair the greens at the golf club.
- Golf carts on the tee can make ruts in the ground that can be difficult for the ground staff to repair.
2The people employed by an airline who work in an airport rather than on board an aircraft: senior management will join ground staff at Heathrow to help out this weekend...- If a hijack takes place, certain codes are input by the pilot into aircraft instruments to alert ground staff.
- About 100 pilots and 200 ground staff were recruited and the British made an air base available for training, which began in September 1941.
- Pilots screamed at ground staff over the radio to tow the planes to the gates before they lost total control of the situation.
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