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personnel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • personal adjective Relating to a specific individual rather than to others or to the public.
  • personnel noun The people who work for an organization, such as a company or the military.
  • private adj Belonging to a particular person or group, rather than the public or the state.
  • staff noun The people who work for an organisation.
  • workforce noun All the people employed by a company, industry, or country.

Senses

personnel is used for these senses in English:

  • personal Done in person; without an intermediary.
  • private Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
  • staff (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
  • workforce All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.

personal — full definition

  1. adjective Relating to a specific individual rather than to others or to the public.
  2. adjective Done by someone directly, without going through another person.

personnel — full definition

  1. noun The people who work for an organization, such as a company or the military.
  2. noun The department that handles hiring and staff matters within a company.

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