special staff

American  

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.

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Etymology

Origin of special staff

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The morning after Foden's arrest, she said there was a special staff meeting.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

Directly adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center is a Renaissance hotel with a pair of special staff members: robots.

From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2018

The National Security Council is the president’s special staff for national security, and there’s room in the White House for only one.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2017

The congregation still will be standing when Cupich takes his seat in the cathedra, or teaching chair, and George presents him a special staff that once belonged to the late Cardinal George Mundelein.

From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 17, 2014

In his manuscripts there were so many erasures, and such frequent interlineations that a special staff of compositors was used for his work, but this was not on account of any illegibility in his handwriting. 

From My Father as I Recall Him by Dickens, Mamie