personnel
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3.5
- noun
- /ˌpɜr.səˈnɛl/
:
personal
- All available security personnel, report to engine room.
- military personnel
- security personnel
- trained personnel
So he talks about core personnel and this is really central.
- So he talks about core personnel and this is really central.
- Kemp, all non essential personnel out of here now.
- Do we have the appropriate personnel on a frontline for certain issues?
- They share common personnel, engineering personnel.
- So I went in, went up to the personnel director, and he was kind of nasty.
- I'm a wall according to Fort Ord personnel, right?
- It's just one big club revolving door of personnel.
- Well, we were in this bar and there's some other Army personnel there.
- And that takes some pain because it means that we might have to change some personnel, might have to change some players.
- This is a group of OSS personnel that was sent to kind of the Burma, India, China area.
- So we've got like the personnel side of reinforcement, you know, getting people on your side.
- But the the First World War was the Great War was still interfering with material and personnel movement.
Examples
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Do we have the appropriate personnel on a frontline for certain issues?
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From the moment you encounter school library personnel in this district, you are struck by their professionalism.
Academic text (2011) -
We can discuss the new computer operation and the personnel shift at the same time.
Fiction book (1991) -
All personnel, prepare to leave the area
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The survey was administered by admissions office personnel when a student initially applied to the college.
Academic text (1999) -
All personnel require A-1 security clearance.
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All personnel proceed to escape pods.
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The mandate required health care organizations to vaccinate personnel who had direct contact with patients.
Academic text (2011) -
So there were drastic shortages of healthcare personnel available to the civilian population.
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The new procedure for training hospital personnel aims to improve patient care.
Synonyms
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1.0
The people who work for a company, school, or person
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
14
5.3
A military vehicle with metal protection that carries soldiers safely
- NSFW
1
7.0
A bomb that sends out many small metal pieces to injure or kill people
- Specialized
People who work directly in a company's main operations, like factory or sales staff
- Specialized
A member of the military who is killed or captured during a fight
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Morphology
Etymology
Personnel comes from the same root as person and personal, with person meaning 'someone', so personnel simply means the people who work for an organization or who follow orders, which is why we use it for staff or soldiers.