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personnelman

personnelman noun: someone (of any gender) serving in the United States Navy.

Noun

personnelman (plural personnelmen)

  1. (US) Someone (of any gender) serving in the United States Navy.
    • It was a labor-intensive job for some of the personnelmen to enter the data into the computer system, but the payoff came in terms of retrieval.1996, Paul Stillwell, Battleship Missouri: An Illustrated History, Annapolis, M.D.: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 293
    • The personnelman knew the books, having studied them for seventeen years. He knew the yeoman's job as well, to the everlasting dismay of Huff, who would prefer to take the day off — every day.1999, Jim R. Lane, Duty: A Novel, Bridge Works Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 14

Forms of personnelman

pluralpersonnelmen

Origin of personnelman

Compound of personnel + man.

Questions about personnelman

What does personnelman mean?
Personnelman means someone (of any gender) serving in the United States Navy.
What part of speech is personnelman?
Personnelman is a noun.
What is the plural of personnelman?
The plural of personnelman is personnelmen.

Words near personnelman in the dictionary

  1. personnel files
  2. personnel transfer basket
  3. personnel transfer baskets
  4. personnelist
  5. personnelists
  6. personnelman
  7. personnelmen
  8. personnels
  9. personness
  10. personning
  11. personocentric

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