(~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
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Staple is also a noun.
Fish is a ~ in the diet of many Africans.
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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.
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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