transcription, транскрипция: [ steɪp(ə)l ]
( staples, stapling, stapled)
1.
A staple food, product, or activity is one that is basic and important in people’s everyday lives.
The Chinese also eat a type of pasta as part of their staple diet...
Staple goods are disappearing from the shops.
ADJ : ADJ n
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Staple is also a noun.
Fish is a staple in the diet of many Africans.
N-COUNT
2.
A staple is something that forms an important part of something else.
Political reporting has become a staple of American journalism.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
3.
Staples are small pieces of bent wire that are used mainly for holding sheets of paper together firmly. You put the staples into the paper using a device called a stapler.
N-COUNT
4.
If you staple something, you fasten it to something else or fix it in place using staples.
Staple some sheets of paper together into a book.
...polythene bags stapled to an illustrated card.
VERB : V n with adv , V-ed