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human resources

[ hyoo-muhn ree-sawr-sis, ree-zawr-siz, yoo-muhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

(used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
(used with a singular verb) human resources department.

human resources

1. the workforce of an organization
2. ( as modifier )
  human-resources officer
  human-resources management
1. the office or department in an organization that interviews, appoints, or keeps records of employees
2. ( as modifier )
  a human-resources consultancy
the contribution to an employing organization which its workforce could provide in effort, skills, knowledge, etc

First recorded in 1965–70

But instead of board member, the definitive organizational role in contemporary corporatism is (yep) the human resources manager.

It speaks volumes that the President of the United States would believe his own human resources need to be managed in such a way.

He is the drone official, the bland-faced human-resources manager tasked with dropping the axe.

Nolen proceeded directly from human resources to the front office.

With California hiring rules already cumbersome, he said, he bit the bullet and outsourced human resources.

A variety of geographical resources and of human resources results in diversity in the economic life of the state.

She evinced no self-adulation, and no undue dependence upon human resources.

All of them were well fitted to rebuke that pride in human resources which had been the occasion of his sin.

He had a more modest estimate of human resources for forming true judgments in religion, and a Religious Toleration.

But He will teach us the utter barrenness of all human resources.

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