Personnel Definition

pûrsə-nĕl
noun
Persons employed in any work, enterprise, service, establishment, etc.
Webster's New World
A personnel department or office.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Of or relating to the division within a business or other enterprise whose functions include hiring and training employees, and administering their benefits.
Webster's New World

Origin of Personnel

  • French from Old French personal from Latin persōnālis personality

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French personnel.

    From Wiktionary

Personnel Sentence Examples

  • He also asked for and received Byrne's department personnel file.

  • The personnel consisted of 198 officers and 965 men.

  • Department personnel operated on the basis of out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

  • Bus station and airport personnel had been questioned, but no one remembered anything of note.

  • His influence was felt decisively in the distribution of guns and armour, and in the training of the personnel of the navy.

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Words Starting With

PPEPER

Words Ending With

LELNEL

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Words Starting With P and Ending With L

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Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With L