STAPLE


Meaning of STAPLE in English

(~s, stapling, ~d)

1.

A ~ 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 ~ diet...

Staple goods are disappearing from the shops.

ADJ: ADJ n

Staple is also a noun.

Fish is a ~ in the diet of many Africans.

N-COUNT

2.

A ~ is something that forms an important part of something else.

Political reporting has become a ~ 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 ~s into the paper using a device called a ~r.

N-COUNT

4.

If you ~ something, you fasten it to something else or fix it in place using ~s.

Staple some sheets of paper together into a book.

...polythene bags ~d to an illustrated card.

VERB: V n with adv, V-ed

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