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half-staff (h

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stäf

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See half-mast.

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Noun

half-staff - a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress

half-mast

position, place - the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"

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half-mast place position			Company spokesman Dick Starmann said the company had asked that McDonald's corporate flag be lowered to half staff at all McDonald's outlets until Friday. THE PAST 100 YEARS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) The union flag was brought to half staff at civic buildings in South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Newcastle as a mark of respect and more than 100,000 council employees stopped working. A thoughtful silence descends by The Journal (Newcastle, England) The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a deal officials struck with city employee bargaining groups to change the schedule so departments will operate at half staff Fridays. GLENDALE OFFICES TO OPEN FRIDAYS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)			half hitch half holiday Half hose half hour half landing half life half mask half measure half mile half nelson half note half page Half pay half pound Half price half relief half rest half rhyme Half round half seas over half shell Half shift half sister half snipe half sole Half staff half step half term half thickness Half tide Half time Half tint half title Half tone half track Half truth half volley Half year half-a-crown half-a-dollar half-and-half half-and-half dressing half-arsed half-asleep half-assed half-awake half-baked half-ball half-binding half-birthday half-blind			half section half section Half Securon half set Half shaft half shell Half shift Half shirt Half sibling Half sibling Half siblings Half siblings Half silvered mirror Half silvered mirror Half silvered mirror Half Sine Wave Half Sinemet half sister half sister Half sisters Half sisters Half Size Blue Print Half Sized Diazo Non-Reproducible Drawing half slating Half Slotted Container half snipe half sole Half Sovereign Half Sovereigns Half space Half staff half step half step half step half steps half steps Half Stock Half Stocks half story Half Subtractor Half suit Half suit Half sword half tap half term half term half the battle Half The Fight half the time Half the truth is often a whole lie Half the world knows not how the other half lives half thickness half thickness Half tide Half tide half timber Half timbered Half time Half time Half tint half title

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