Staff
Train
Train noun - A body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person.
Usage example: a movie star who never goes anywhere without a train of personal assistants to cater to his every whim and need
Staff and train are semantically related in retinue topic. Sometimes you can use "Staff" instead a noun "Train".
How words are described
| old | old staff | old train |
| full | full staff | full train |
| special | special staff | special train |
| best | best staff | best train |
| Other adjectives: similar, short, complete, regular, single, heavy, powerful, actual, entire, real, massive, large, main, personal, military, different, magical, electric. | ||
Common collocations
| units | staff units | train units |
Both words in one sentence
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The only train company staff on the train are there just to ensure that the computers driving the trains don't mess up at what they are supposed to be doing, supervise passenger movement and intervene in the event of an emergency, and answer any queries passengers may have.
Source: Cool Train -
Super Show, episode "Mario Meets Koop-zilla", a super-sized Mario picks up a train and wields it like nunchucks or a sectioned staff to fight an equally super-sized King Koopa.
Source: Instant Chucks -
Turns up in, of all places, the Bruce Lee film Way of the Dragon, in which the Chinese restaurant staff all train in karate before getting the crap knocked out of them by the local thugs.
Source: Good Old Fisticuffs
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