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▪ I. † ˈstaffer1 Obs. rare—1.
[? f. staff n.1 + -er1.]
? A kind of peashooter.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 82/2 Playes with Instruments... Shooting in a trunk staffer or spitter.
▪ II. staffer2 orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈstɑːfə(r), -æ-|
[f. staff n.1 + -er1.]
A member of a staff. a. Of a newspaper or journal: a staff writer.
1949Cavalier Daily (Univ. of Virginia) 22 Oct. 4/2 Staffers of the Daily Pennsylvanian visited the Princetonian offices following the Penn-Princeton football game. 1952G. 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. 1973E. 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.
1950in Webster Add. 1962Housewife (Ceylon) Apr. 34 (caption) Mr. Neale talks to staffers of a local advertising agency. 1966Economist 3 Sept. 888/1 Clerks, foremen and other staffers. 1972M. Glenny tr. Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 xi. 108 The younger General Staffers of recent vintage all knew each other and stuck together like members of a secret order. 1980Information 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.
1969R. 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. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 14 Feb. 16/6 The letter was written by a Carter staffer who misrepresented Carter's position. 1981W. 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. |