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• n  (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
• n  one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
• n  a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
• v  furnish with staves
  stave a ladder
• v  burst or force (a hole) into something

• He did so amid the company's two-year crisis that came, in 2002, from weak management and damaged brand image, and forced a 3 billion bank bailout to stave off potential .
• The economy has been expanding madly, but not fast enough to stave off a gigantic wave of joblessness.
• Journalism's fortnight is upon us, and I suspect that 2009 will be remembered as the year news organizations realized that further rounds of cost-cutting would not stave off the .

• staff
• lag
• rung
• round
• stave in

News & Articles

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• Using math to kill cancer cells
  ( Ottawa Hospital Research Institute ) Nature Communications has published a paper from Ottawa researchers today, outlining how advanced mathematical modelling can be used in the fight against cancer. The technique predicts how different treatments and genetic modifications might allow cancer-killing, oncolytic viruses to overcome the natural defences that cancer cells use to stave off viral ...
  June 14, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Patriot, union exchange jabs during bankruptcy
  Top executives of a bankrupt coal producer and the nation's biggest miner's union are trading public jabs over bargaining meant to stave off a strike against a company given a court's go-ahead to slash ...
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Analysis: Bombardier gambles on big order payoff with new jet
  By Susan Taylor and Solarina Ho TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Bombardier Inc is hoping to carve a new niche in the cutthroat airplane market with a fuel-efficient, medium-haul jet that makes its first flight this month, but its all-new CSeries needs an avalanche of orders to stave off bigger rivals. Bombardier's narrow-body CSeries, aimed at a gap in the market, offers a lightweight carbon ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ricardo Sanchez in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  The best we can do with this flawed approach is stave off defeat,Sanchez said.
• Gen James Conway in BuzzFlash
  As Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway pointed out on Monday, "If you commit your reserve for something other than a decisive win, or to stave off defeat, then you have essentially shot your bolt."
• Walter Smith in Sportinglife.com
  Smith said: "There has been an interest from Middlesbrough. So far we haven't reached any agreement. We would like to stave off any enquiries that we get for any of our players but unfortunately we have to listen to them all."