staffer

From staff +‎ -er.

staffer (plural staffers)

1. A member of a staff; an employee.

   The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.

   • 2025 April 25, Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.

   • 2026 February 7, Richard Luscombe, Shrai Popat, Robert Mackey, “Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     But then around midday on Friday the post was taken down from Trump’s Truth Social account and the White House claimed that posting it had been a mistake by a staffer.

• affrets, restaff

From staff +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /sta.fe/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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staffer

1. (transitive) to cover with staff (the building material)

• “staffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012