Words Like STAPLE

We have put together a list of words that are similar to STAPLE.

16 Alternative Words Similar to staple

1 Essential Adjective      Similar Words Like Essential
2 Basic Noun      Synonym Words Like Basic
3 Commodity Noun      Synonym Words Like Commodity
4 Good Noun      Synonym Words Like Good
5 Material Noun      Synonym Words Like Material
6 Stuff Noun      Synonym Words Like Stuff
7 Fasten Verb      Synonym Words Like Fasten
8 Fix Verb      Synonym Words Like Fix
9 Secure Verb      Synonym Words Like Secure
10 Emporium Noun      Synonym Words Like Emporium
11 Source Noun      Synonym Words Like Source
12 Settled Adjective      Synonym Words Like Settled
13 Marketable Adjective      Synonym Words Like Marketable
14 Principal Adjective      Synonym Words Like Principal
15 Chief Adjective      Synonym Words Like Chief
16 Feedstock Noun      Hyponym

6 examples of staple

1 wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States
2 a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple
3 a staple town
4 a staple trade
5 to staple cotton
6 to staple a check to a letter

10 definitions of staple

1 A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
2 Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
3 The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district.
4 The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
5 Unmanufactured material; raw material.
6 The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like.
7 A loop of metal such as iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
8 A small loop of metal such as steel, bent into a U-shape with the points sharpened, used to fasten sheets of paper together by driving the staple{8} through the stacked sheets and into a formed receptacle which curls the ends in and backward, thus holding the papers firmly together; also, a similar, slightly larger such fastener which may be driven into wood to fasten objects to a wooden backing.
9 A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
10 A small pit.
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