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What does half-staff mean?

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Noun
  1. (US, Canada) Half-mast.
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The blue United Nations flag with its white map of the world was lowered to half-staff.
At the start of the ceremony, the flag was flying at half-staff in the former president's memory.
Police officers lowered the flag outside their headquarters to half-staff.
All flags at city buildings were lowered to half-staff in his honor.
But to me, you see, it meant also that my son was being buried under a flag that was at half-staff too.
According to the radio station I was listening to, NASA has lowered its flags to half-staff.

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