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personnels

personnels is the plural of personnel.

Meaning of personnel

Noun

personnel (countable and uncountable, plural personnels)

  1. 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.1924, U.S. Army Recruiting News, page 10
  2. (countable, nonstandard, plural personnel) 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.2025 April 12, “Soldier Killed In Action As Army Stops Infiltration Attempt Along Line Of Control”, in India News, NDTV
  3. (uncountable) A human resources department.
    • I've just had a letter from personnel.

Questions about personnels

What is personnels the plural of?
Personnels is the plural of personnel.

Words near personnels in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personnels (page history and authors); personnel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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