personnel department
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of personnel department
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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The mayor said she had directed the personnel department to “complete the report and release it without further delay.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bass said she had spent years addressing a years-old administrative bottleneck within the city’s personnel department, which runs the background process for police hires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
When the New England Patriots signed Mike Vrabel as a young linebacker in 2001, they sent a gopher from the team’s personnel department to scoop him up at the airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Its predecessor, the personnel department, emerged in the early 1900s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
On her first day at Langley, Dorothy Vaughan spent the morning in the personnel department filling out the requisite paperwork.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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