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flag staves

flag staves is the plural of flag staff.

Meaning of flag staff

Noun

flag staff (countable and uncountable, plural flag staffs or flag staves)

  1. A flag officer and his staff.
    • The conning tower was a relatively compact space, with curved walls to provide maximum strength, so it could accommodate only a handful of picked staff to support the Captain and, if flag staff were embarked, the Admiral.2013, Jean Moulin, French Cruisers, 1922–1956

Questions about flag staves

What is flag staves the plural of?
Flag staves is the plural of flag staff.

Words near flag staves in the dictionary

  1. flag staffs
  2. flag state
  3. flag states
  4. flag station
  5. flag stations
  6. flag staves
  7. flag stop
  8. flag stops
  9. Flag Town
  10. flag up
  11. flag, motherhood and apple pie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flag staves (page history and authors); flag staff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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