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Personnel   /pˌərsənˈɛl/   Listen
noun
Personnel  n.  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; distinguished from materiel.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Personnel" Quotes from Famous Books



... personnel were not heavy considering the scale of the operations, but practically the whole of the crew of the Bouvet were lost with the ship, an internal explosion having apparently supervened on the explosion of the mine." [About 500 lives ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell

... Cyril, and found myself amid a most extraordinary scene of noise and confusion on the immense stage. The entire personnel of the house seemed to be present: a crowd apparently consisting of thousands of people, and which really did comprise some hundreds. Never before had I had such a clear conception of the elaborate human machinery necessary ...
— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett

... dictum that the personnel of the new Government was a triumph for conservatism over radicalism signifies little. There was a division among Southerners which scarcely any of them had realized except briefly in the premature ...
— The Day of the Confederacy - A Chronicle of the Embattled South, Volume 30 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson

... said Cosmo. "Set down under that head Peter Inkson, whom I will engage to record the last scenes on the drowning earth; James Henry Blackwitt, who will tell the story of the voyage; Jules Bourgeois, who can describe the personnel of the passengers; Sergius Narishkoff, who will make a study of their psychology; and Nicolao Ludolfo, whose description of the ark will be an invaluable historic ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... PERSONNEL. A word adopted from the French, and expressive of all the officers and men, civil and military, composing an army or ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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