personnel
noun
1 personnel
Group of people willing to obey orders.
synonym: force.
Roget 56:
component;
component part,
integral part,
integrant part†;
element,
constituent,
ingredient,
leaven;
part and parcel;
contents;
appurtenance;
feature;
member
etc.
(part)
51;
personnel.
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Roget 690:
doer,
actor,
agent,
performer,
perpetrator,
operator;
executor,
executrix;
practitioner,
worker,
stager.
bee,
ant,
working bee,
termite,
white ant;
laboring oar,
servant of all work,
factotum.
workman,
artisan;
craftsman,
handicraftsman;
mechanic,
operative;
working man;
laboring man;
demiurgus,
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
laborer,
navvy†;
hand,
man,
day laborer,
journeyman,
charwoman,
hack;
mere tool
etc.
633;
beast of burden,
drudge,
fag;
lumper†,
roustabout.
maker,
artificer,
artist,
wright,
manufacturer,
architect,
builder,
mason,
bricklayer,
smith,
forger,
Vulcan;
carpenter;
ganger,
platelayer;
blacksmith,
locksmith,
sailmaker,
wheelwright.
machinist,
mechanician,
engineer.
sempstress†,
semstress†,
seamstress;
needlewoman†,
workwoman;
tailor,
cordwainer†.
minister
etc.
(instrument)
631;
servant
etc.
746;
representative
etc.
(commissioner)
758,
(deputy)
759.
coworker,
party to,
participator in,
particeps criminis [Lat.],
dramatis personae [Lat.];
personnel.
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Dutch: personeelsafdeling, personeelszaken
2 personnel
The department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management.
synonyms: personnel department, personnel office, staff office.
Dutch: personeel, personeelszaken
Polish: dział personalny, biuro personalne, dział osobowy, kadry
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