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personnel

[ pur-suh-nel ]

noun

  1. a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
  2. (used with a plural verb) persons:

    All personnel are being given the day off.



personnel

/ ˌpɜːsəˈnɛl /

noun

  1. the people employed in an organization or for a service or undertaking Compare materiel
    1. Also calledhuman resources the office or department that interviews, appoints, or keeps records of employees
    2. ( as modifier )

      a personnel officer

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Usage Note

Some usage guides object to the use of personnel as a plural. However, this use is well established and standard in all varieties of speech and writing. The use of personnel with a preceding number is largely restricted to business and government communications: Six personnel were transferred.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of personnel1

1825–35; < French, noun use of personnel (adj.) personal < Late Latin persōnāle, neuter of persōnālis; replacing personal (noun), Anglicized form of French personnel; compare German Personal, variant of Personale, Italian personale. See matériel
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Word History and Origins

Origin of personnel1

C19: from French, ultimately from Late Latin persōnālis personal (adj); see person
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Example Sentences

Other measures announced Thursday by the league include the recommendation that teams provide all team personnel with KN95 masks.

Yet straddling the line between public transparency and personnel sensitivity at a place like the New York Times is one of the toughest tasks in media.

At the end of the season, he balked at Snyder’s plans to take away his authority over trades and personnel decisions and was fired.

Hoboken’s contract says records of police discipline will be expunged and removed from an officer’s personnel files after five years.

Janet Woodcock, the FDA’s acting commissioner, pledged to pursue streamlined processes to get updated products to health-care personnel, saying the FDA would not “create obstacles” to authorizing tools that could be useful.

Not actual CIA agents, but U.S. government personnel who have worked very closely with the CIA, and who are fans of the show.

To the Republic of Korea and United States military personnel stationed in the JSA, it is known as Propaganda Village.

Neither individual would go on the record due to the sensitivity of discussing personnel matters.

Add to that the per diems paid for the 105 military commission personnel who attend the proceedings, which cost more than $16,000.

He consistently met the requirements of his job, according to personnel records.

The state and local group in Virginia is nearly equally divided between school and non-school personnel.

However, when civilian government and military personnel are combined, government employment surpasses manufacturing employment.

The number of military personnel in the state is slightly more than twice the number of federal civilian employees.

During the war both the printing and publishing businesses suffered from shortage of personnel, of metal, and of paper.

As to personnel, I ask for young and energetic commanders, Byng and Rawlinson, and am turned down.

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