What does "a guy on the staff" mean? What does "a guy on the staff" mean? Please also provide examples. Thank you in advice. ___________________ Thanks everyone. I saw this phrase in a book, and

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What does "a guy on the staff" mean? What does "a guy on the staff" mean? Please also provide examples. Thank you in advice. ___________________ Thanks everyone. I saw this phrase in a book, and the full sentence is as following: 'When they were taking a rest in the cafeteria, a guy on the staff told them that the weather was too bad for visitors to go up the mountain.' Why can't it just use 'the staff' instead of 'a guy on the staff'?

13 de jan de 2019 12:27

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A guy on staff means a person that works somewhere. Ex: A guy on staff at the restaurant is always late for work. The staff is the group of people that work somewhere. Ex: The staff had their annual Christmas party.

13 de janeiro de 2019

Depends on the context, but I would generally view that to mean the guys who work for a company or at a job. For example, at a restaurant, the waiters as a collective group can be called staff. So "a guy on the staff" would mean one of the male waiters in that restaurant.

13 de janeiro de 2019

New Oxford American Dictionary staff1 | stæf | noun 1 [treated as singular or plural] all the people employed by a particular organization: a staff of 600 | hospital staff were not to blame. • the teachers in a school or college: [as modifier] : a staff meeting.

13 de janeiro de 2019

You could just say "the staff" told you something. But as stated the sentence tells the reader something more specific. One male person, "a guy," who works there, told you something.

13 de janeiro de 2019

Hi. It means the guy is supported by the staff by holding it with his hand, probably because he has injured his leg/foot or he is too old to walk normally.

13 de janeiro de 2019

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