personnel pouch
- noun
- /ˈpɜrsənɛl paʊtʃ/
- Specialized
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saco para restos humanos
- The medics carefully placed the remains in a personnel pouch before transportation.
Examples
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The army used a personnel pouch to transport the fallen soldier.
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Every personnel pouch was tagged with the soldier's identification details for processing.
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After the battle, the recovery team collected the fallen using a personnel pouch.
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Many personnel pouches are designed for quick deployment.
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After the battle, the recovery team collected the fallen using a personnel pouch.
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The medics carefully placed the remains in a personnel pouch before transportation.
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Every personnel pouch was tagged with the soldier's identification details for processing.
Synonyms
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1.0
A flexible container for carrying personal things like books or clothes
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4.9
A large sealed bag for carrying a dead person after an accident or during war
A bag used to hold and move a dead person's body
How Protected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound literally reads as a 'pouch' relating to 'personnel', so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a bag associated with people; this gives some compositional clue. However, the specific sense 'a bag used to hold the body of a dead soldier' is a specialized, euphemistic military usage that is not predictable from the constituents, so learners would likely not infer that exact meaning without exposure.
Etymology
The compound personnel pouch may come from military language, where personnel means people and pouch means a small bag used to carry things. Soldiers put the dead into such a bag to move them, so the phrase now means 'a bag used to carry the body of a dead soldier'.