staffer

1. 1.

   an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)

   Synonymsstaff member

   Broaderemployee

   Part ofstaff

   United States

Other forms of staffer

plural

staffers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about staffer

What does staffer mean?

staffer means "an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)".

How many syllables are in staffer?

staffer has 2 syllables: staf-fer. The stress falls on "staf". In IPA it is /ˈstæfɚ/.

What is another word for staffer?

Close synonyms include staff member. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is staffer a common word?

staffer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.