personnel

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun group of people willing to obey orders
noun the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management

Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal.

Watanabe was against sending MITI personnel. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
Gradually the personnel of his friends changed. — The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest, James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
A._), the personnel of a farm; people. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson

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