personnel

noun
/pɝ.səˈnɛl/US/pɜː.səˈnɛl/UK/pɵː.sɘˈnɛl/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal.

  1. derived from personnel

Definitions

  1. Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of…

    Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.

    • People like to see such friendly relationship existing between the respective personnels of their Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
  2. A member of an organization such as an army.

    • An army personnel has been killed in action in a gunfight after security forces intercepted terrorists making an infiltration attempt near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said today.
    • An army personnel was seen to torture an injured protester.
  3. A human resources department.

    • I've just had a letter from personnel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at personnel. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at personnel. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at personnel

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA