Definitions for PERSONNEL
ˌpɜr səˈnɛlPERSONNEL

Princeton's WordNet(3.40 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. force, personnel(noun)

   group of people willing to obey orders

   "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

2. personnel department, personnel office, personnel, staff office(noun)

   the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. personnel(Noun)

   employees; office staff

   Etymology: From personnel.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Personnel(noun)

   the body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel

   Etymology: [F. See Personal.]

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Personnel

   As in any other field of human activity, specialized personnel constitute a key commanding resource to generate outcome.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. personnel

   Those individuals required in either a military or civilian capacity to accomplish the assigned mission.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. personnel

   A word adopted from the French, and expressive of all the officers and men, civil and military, composing an army or a naval force.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. personnel

   (Fr.). All the officers and men, military and civil, composing an army, or any part of one, as opposed to matériel.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PERSONNEL' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3017

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PERSONNEL' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4067

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PERSONNEL' in Nouns Frequency: #1305

How to pronounce PERSONNEL?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say PERSONNEL in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PERSONNEL in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PERSONNEL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of PERSONNEL in a Sentence

1. Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein:

   It is difficult to see how children, even those throwing stones, can present a threat of imminent death or serious injury to heavily protected security force personnel.

2. Chuck Grassley:

   It’s not a secret that the FBI is operating in the skies above our nation’s cities and towns, but what’s unclear is precisely what the bureau is doing and what legal framework is being used to guide its activity, it’s important that federal law enforcement personnel have the tools they need to find and catch criminals, but whenever an operation may also monitor the activities of Americans who are not the intended target, as several media reports suggest, we must make darn sure that safeguards are in place to protect the civil liberties of innocent Americans.

3. Michael Connor:

   Were obviously very concerned about the environment and were doing everything we can to contain it, once we were assured that personnel were safe, our next priority effort was to ... contain any type of fuel.

4. Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann:

   I wish this event had never occurred ; we always grieve the loss of life, but I find nothing in the contemporaneous reporting of this event that convinces me of collusion or malicious action or inaction on the part of the Greensboro Police Department or City personnel.

5. The Defense:

   The safety of our personnel and the security of our operations are of paramount concern. The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report, this includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.

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