0 a chief product of trade or industry. -- produk utama
1 a chief or main item (of diet etc). -- makanan asas
2 a U-shaped type of nail. -- paku berbentuk U
3 a U-shaped piece of wire that is driven through sheets of paper etc to fasten them together. -- dawai kokot
4 to fasten or attach (paper etc) with staples -- mengokot
She stapled the pages of the report together.
The recent lessons of the depression - falling commodity prices, overproduction of certain agricultural staples - indicated otherwise.
To a large extent, the effects of the decline of the great export staples spread throughout the local economies of the outer regions.
By the mid 1920s, display advertisements for consumer durables, leisure activities and homes outstripped those for traditional staples such as clothing or foodstuffs.
We learn nothing about such staples as the seasonality of labour or the administration of the poor law.
There were of course other crops, but these were the main staples of a very commercial agriculture.
During the previous century, trade had increased dramatically as new products - sugar, tobacco and cotton - not produced in the importing region became international staples.
Rather, urbanization and the industrialization based on the processing of staples were both driven by the export of these commodities.
The two commodities contrasted with rubber's strong linkage effects, and serve as a reminder that staples may differ greatly in their spread effects over time.