Complement and Staff

Complement

Complement noun - Something that serves to complete or make up for a deficiency in something else.

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Staff and complement are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Staff" instead a noun "Complement".

Staff noun - A body of persons at work or available for work.

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Complement and staff are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Complement" instead a noun "Staff".

Nearby Words: staffed, staffer, staffing

old	old complement	old staff
full	full complement	full staff
normal	normal complement	normal staff
usual	usual complement	usual staff
Other adjectives: original, small, powerful, entire, large.

When Virgil has control of the staff, he specifically seeks out a Trickster Archetype to complement his Lawful with Chaos.

Source: Web Comic / Evil Diva
The system also allowed the commander and his chief of staff to complement each other.

Source: Hypercompetent Sidekick / Real Life
It's a mobile space station with millions of staff, a full complement of fighters and support ships, thousands of secondary weapons, and a planet-shattering superlaser.

Source: Kill Sat

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