personnel B2 Topic:Work & Careers US /pɝ.səˈnɛl/ UK /pɜː.səˈnɛl/ See IPA manual Freq #4622 Meanings 1 noun The people who work for an organization or in the armed forces. All personnel must wear a safety helmet on the building site. 2 noun The department in a company that hires and looks after staff. I've just had a letter from personnel about my contract. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · the department in a company... personnel department Word family Derived forms anti-personnelantipersonnelnonpersonnel Common collocations personnel carrier Noun + noun Etymology AI details Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal. personnel French View etymology graph -> Topics Work & Careers External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # personnel **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /pɝ.səˈnɛl/ **IPA (UK):** /pɜː.səˈnɛl/ **Frequency rank:** 4622 ## Meanings 1. The people who work for an organization or in the armed forces. 2. The department in a company that hires and looks after staff. ## Examples - All personnel must wear a safety helmet on the building site. - I've just had a letter from personnel about my contract. ## Derived Forms - anti-personnel - antipersonnel - nonpersonnel ## Roots and Affixes - Root: personnel ## Etymology Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal. ## AI Etymology Personnel is an unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal. The historical chain includes personnel (French). In present-day English it covers the people who work for an organization or in the armed forces and the department in a company that hires and looks after staff. The wider family includes derived forms such as anti-personnel, antipersonnel, nonpersonnel. ## Topics - Work & Careers markdown