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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M. H. Abrams

Meaning of "personnel" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERSONNEL

From French, ultimately from Late Latin persōnālis personal (adj).
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERSONNEL

personnel  [ˌpɜːsəˈnɛl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERSONNEL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Personnel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERSONNEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

personnel

Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract, one being the employer and the other being the employee.

Definition of personnel in the English dictionary

The definition of personnel in the dictionary is Also called: human resources. the office or department that interviews, appoints, or keeps records of employees.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERSONNEL


antipersonnel
ˌæntɪˌpɜːsəˈnɛl
Brunel
bruːˈnɛl
crenelle
krɪˈnɛl
cubanelle
ˌkjuːbəˈnɛl
dynel
daɪˈnɛl
fontanel
ˌfɒntəˈnɛl
fontanelle
ˌfɒntəˈnɛl
fustanelle
ˌfʌstəˈnɛl
jargonel
ˌdʒɑːɡəˈnɛl
organelle
ˌɔːɡəˈnɛl
prunelle
pruːˈnɛl
quenelle
kəˈnɛl
ritornelle
ˌrɪtəˈnɛl
ritournelle
ˌrɪtəˈnɛl
spinel
spɪˈnɛl
villanelle
ˌvɪləˈnɛl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERSONNEL

personation
personative
personator
personhood
personifiable
personification
personified
personifier
personifies
personify
personize
personned
personnel agency
personnel carrier
personnel department
personnel management
personnel manager
personnel officer
personpower
persons

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERSONNEL

backchannel
Bristol Channel
channel
co-channel
crime passionnel
English Channel
fennel
flannel
funnel
green channel
gunnel
kennel
light at the end of the tunnel
Mozambique Channel
multichannel
ronnel
runnel
the Channel
tunnel
wind tunnel

Synonyms and antonyms of personnel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERSONNEL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «personnel» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of personnel

Translation of «personnel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERSONNEL

Find out the translation of personnel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of personnel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «personnel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

人员
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

personal
570 millions of speakers

English

personnel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्मिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هَيْئَةُ الْـمُوَظَفِيـن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

персонал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pessoal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মিবৃন্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

personnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kakitangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Personal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

人員
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

직원
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Personil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhân sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பணியாளர்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्मचारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

personel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

personale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

personel
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

персонал
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

personal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσωπικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

personeel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

personal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

personale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of personnel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSONNEL»

The term «personnel» is very widely used and occupies the 5.135 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSONNEL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «personnel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «personnel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about personnel

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10 QUOTES WITH «PERSONNEL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word personnel.
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M. H. Abrams
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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Kate Adie
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Richard V. Allen
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
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Richard V. Allen
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.
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Walter Alston
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
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Michele Bachmann
When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.
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Howard Baker
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.
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Tom Bergeron
When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.
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Arthur Blank
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
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Allen Boyd
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSONNEL»

Discover the use of personnel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to personnel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology
The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology brings together contributions from leading international scholars within the field to present state-of-the-art reviews on topical and emergent issues, constructs, and research in personnel ...
Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper, 2008
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Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology: Personnel ...
A four volume set. This second edition has been extensively rewritten and should be of interest to both practitioners and students of organizational psychology.
Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth, Henk Thierry, Charles Johannes Wolff, 1998
3
Personnel Selection: Adding Value Through People
Clear and accessible, Personnel Selection will continue to be the guide that students and professionals alike turn to for practical advice in this complex field.
Mark Cook, 2009
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Handbook of Public Personnel Administration
Offers in-depth analyses spanning the entire field of public personnel administration--from a history of the American civil service as characterized by competing perspectives to the contemporary application of total quality management by ...
Jack Rabin, 1994
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Personnel Management
For students of commerce and management, this text takes a closer look at personnel management and human resources.
Monappa, 1996
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Personnel Management
Covers Manpower Planning, Recrutment, Selection, Induction, Training, Development, Training, Promotion Etc.
R.J. Reddy, 2004
7
Personnel Economics
Edward Lazear, who founded the subfield of personnel economics, provides a quick introduction for economists who have not studied the area.
Edward P. Lazear, 1995
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Spanish for Medical Personnel: Basic Spanish Series
Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Ana Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo, 2010
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The Principal's Guide to Managing School Personnel
Principals will find techniques for managing personnel and creating effective work environments, plus conflict-resolution models, reflective activities, and scenarios based on common personnel issues.
Richard D. Sorenson, Lloyd M. Goldsmith, 2008
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Personnel Economics in Practice
The goal of this text is to give the reader a rigorous framework for understanding organizational design and the management of employees.
Edward P. Lazear, Michael Gibbs, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSONNEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term personnel is used in the context of the following news items.
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Falling Skies: "Non-Essential Personnel" Review
“Non-Essential Personnel” had a great energy to it from beginning to end. Pope recruiting was actually kind of a surprise to see as he seems ... «IGN, Jul 15»
2
Medical personnel keep Reynolds Creek firefighters healthy
Medical personnel say they've treated many firefighters with heat rash, which say happens from lugging heavy equipment for long periods of ... «KPAX-TV, Jul 15»
3
Taliban overrun base, capture and release 100 Afghan security …
But Afghan press reports do back the Taliban's assertion that it seized the base, captured the Afghan security personnel, and confiscated their ... «Long War Journal, Jul 15»
4
Emergency personnel investigating early morning Royalton garage …
Emergency personnel investigating early morning Royalton garage fire. 0. Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. Google+ Pinterest Email. «Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, Jul 15»
5
Two police personnel to be arrested on charge of stealing seized sand
The City police will soon arrest the sub-inspector and constable of Bilikere Police Station on charge of stealing seized sand. A truckload of sand ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
6
Demand to include lessons on defence personnel in school textbooks
... on the sacrifices made by defence personnel in protecting the country. ... said that the services of defence personnel in saving the country ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Thousands of Kenyan and American Personnel Deployed to Ensure …
Every US security officer in the country has been partnered with his Kenyan counterpart of the same rank to secure President Barack Obama. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
8
CM felicitates Pushkaralu duty personnel
He also thanked the Government for allocating additional funds for the food and other amenities to the police personnel who toiled hard during ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
9
Sheriff's Office personnel, Pony Leaguers in benefit softball game
Members of the Kendall County Sheriff's Office will play a beenfit softball game against a team comprised of Oswego Pony League players next ... «Kendall County Now, Jul 15»
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How the Opening Window Might Change the Dallas Stars Personnel
So what does that mean from a personnel management? The clues may be found in the Stars current roster design. Instead of leaving roster ... «Defending Big D, Jul 15»

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