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line personnel

line personnel

5.5
People who work directly in a company's main operations, like factory or sales staff
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : personal de línea
  • In addition to inspections, VSP offers training for cruise line personnel in food safety and sanitation during three-day courses held in Miami five times per year.

Examples

  • The manager met with the line personnel to discuss the new project timelines.

  • Besides, there's been a complete rotation of the flight-line personnel since then.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Right now, the offensive line personnel lacks a road grader who could push back defensive tackles.

    Blog text (22)

  • Effective communication between line personnel and upper management is essential for success.

  • The line personnel are responsible for implementing the company's daily operations and meeting targets.

Synonyms

line worker
vsline personnel
4 2.6

A person who works on an assembly line doing the same tasks

includes employees directly involved in core operations across an organization

How Operational

Ops
  • Jargon
11 6.1
line personnel
  • Specialized
5.5
administrative
180 4.6

Surface Forms

line personnel singular
line personnels plural

Morphology

line + personnel

The noun‑noun phrase is compositionally interpretable: 'line' (a business/product area or core operations) modifies 'personnel' (employees), so it straightforwardly denotes employees who work in that line. This follows common attributive-noun patterns and is cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings would be able to infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

The term line personnel comes from the simple image of workers standing on an assembly line or at the front line of an operation, while personnel just means the people who work there. These are the people doing the main work, so the phrase refers to employees who are directly responsible for 'achieving the company's main goals'.