personnel
pronunciation
How to pronounce personnel in British English:
UK [ˌpɜːsəˈnel]
How to pronounce personnel in American English:
US [ˌpɜːrsəˈnel]
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- Noun:
- group of people willing to obey orders
- the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for seting policies for personnel management
Word Origin
- personnel (n.)
- 1837, from French personnel (a contrastive term to matériel), noun use of personnel (adj.) "personal," from Old French personel (see personal).
Example
- 1. Service personnel also feature heavily in the guest list .
- 2. A number of foreign embassies and firms withdrew their personnel from tokyo .
- 3. But the most important thing in politics is structure , not personnel .
- 4. In some rich democracies , the personnel problem is felt only in specific areas .
- 5. A unique case will also help airline personnel locate the device in a storage room .