PERSONNEL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

personnel; personnel department; personnel office; staff office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("personnel" is a kind of...):

department; section (a specialized division of a large organization)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Group of people willing to obey orders

Example:

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

Synonyms:

force; personnel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("personnel" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personnel"):

guerilla force; guerrilla force (an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups)

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

paramilitary; paramilitary force; paramilitary organisation; paramilitary organization; paramilitary unit (a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops))

constabulary; law; police; police force (the force of policemen and officers)

private security force; security force (a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry)

military police; MP (a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners)

hands; manpower; men; work force; workforce (the force of workers available)

patrol (a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security)

military personnel; soldiery; troops (soldiers collectively)

rank; rank and file (the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army))

staff (personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task)

line personnel (personnel having direct job performance responsibilities)

management personnel (personnel having overall planning and direction responsibilities)

Credits

Context examples:

Using an ultra-sensitive technology, researchers were able to measure levels of the protein, tau, in the blood months and years after individuals (in this case, military personnel) had experienced TBI.

(Key protein found to have role in long-term complications from traumatic brain injury, NIH)

Trained personnel coordinate the retrieval, preservation and delivery of specimens obtained from surgical resections and from autopsies.This resource provides normal, benign, pre-cancerous and cancerous human tissue to the scientific community for basic and developmental studies in many areas of cancer research.

(Cooperative Human Tissue Network, NCI Thesaurus)

A person that provides coordination between physicians, hospital staff, and administration in the implementation of programs that are to develop and deliver a range of education and information to both patients and healthcare personnel.

(Community Educator, NCI Thesaurus)

Institutions with an organized medical staff for the medical care, treatment, and cure of the sick and wounded, for the study of disease, and for the training of physicians, nurses, and allied health personnel.

(Clinics and Hospitals, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemical analysis techniques—such as those used in clinical analyses for personal health purposes, water and food testing, and environmental monitoring—are typically performed in well-resourced laboratories by qualified personnel using equipment that is often bulky and expensive.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

Launched from Kourou Space Center in French Guiana, the satellite was undergoing adjustments and orbital testing under the supervision of Armed Forces military personnel and engineers from the equipment manufacturer, France-based Thales Alenia Space.

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)

Finding, attracting, and affording new personnel is often a major problem facing many businesses.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We found that all our possessions fitted very easily into the two canoes, and we divided our personnel, six in each, taking the obvious precaution in the interests of peace of putting one Professor into each canoe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One obvious step toward making these chemical analysis techniques more widely available would be to find a means to enable even untrained personnel to conduct them, in any location, in the proximity of the sample to be analysed, delivering performance that would ensure the results of the measurements were useful.