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personnel|pɜːsəˈnɛl, pɛrsɔnɛl|
[mod.F., n. use of personnel adj., personal, as contrasted with matériel material, e.g. le matériel et le personnel d'une armée. In earlier use anglicized; see personal B. 4.]
1. a. The body of persons engaged in any service or employment, esp. in a public institution, as an army, navy, hospital, etc.; the human as distinct from the matériel or material equipment (of an institution, undertaking, etc.).
In quot. 1834 used in the French sense of ‘the sum of qualities which make up the character’: but this can hardly be considered as more than an isolated use in Eng.
[1834Edin. Rev. LIX. 329 In their hands..the personnel of the robbers [became] more truculent. ]
1837J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. XXVIII. 25 In moments of general enthusiasm it is enough that a party carries the favourite banner; but in the intervals between those moments, its importance depends upon the confidence inspired by its personnel. 1857S. Osborn Quedah. xv. 200 Captain Warren was favourably impressed with the matériel and personnel of the native army co-operating with us. 1861Thackeray Four Georges 142 He knew the personnel of the Universities. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 39 It is not here recommended that the personnel of the English dockyards should be remodelled on the French plan. 1886Ld. Brassey Nav. Annual 3 From the personnel we pass to the materiel of the [English] fleet. 1886Stubbs Lect. Study Hist. iv. 89 To study the drama in its plot and personnel. 1894C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 315 The personnel—the body of men, that is, who themselves constitute our Navy. 1899H. James Awkward Age x. xxxvii. 397 The personnel, as the newspapers say, of the saloon will shift and change. 1943R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 3 The new basis of distribution is one copy to every twenty-five personnel. 1944Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 15/1 British forces then rushed the landing ground..capturing nineteen aircraft together with a number of somewhat bewildered air-force personnel. 1969[see jawan]. 1972J. Mosedale Football v. 56 Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins, playing with inferior personnel overall, lasted 16 years.
b. spec. The members of an orchestra, band, etc.
1956Gramophone June 25/1 The sleeve [of a record] gives personnels. 1962Oxford Mail 19 Feb. 6/5 The personnel of the nine bands on this important release includes many of the most famous names in jazz. 1967Melody Maker 16 Dec. 10/5 It is certainly a very good band with above average solo strength and a personnel which includes a mass of arranging talent. 1968Blues Unlimited Nov. 10 It is owing to him that personnels and dates for so many blues/gospel recordings by this company are now wellknown. 1973Melody Maker 4 Aug. 50/6 When the Humphrey Lyttelton Band makes an appearance at the Lancastrian Hall, Swinton, Manchester,..the personnel will include Kathy Stobart (tenor), [etc.].
c. (Usu. with capital initial.) = personnel department.
1960M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye v. 86 I'm just mentioning a factor that Personnel keep stressing. 1970‘D. Craig’ Young Men may Die xviii. 127, I rang Personnel at the office and asked for Stephen's full name. 1973Clarendonian XXVII. i. 21 It was not therefore surprising that when a vacancy occurred, J. L. A. asked for her in Personnel.
2. Personal appearance. rare.
1861T. McWeeney in D. Crow Theresa (1966) xvi. 182 Mrs Yelverton is still in the possession of an exceedingly agreeable personnel, and, without being positively handsome, she is most prepossessing and ladylike. 1909W. De Morgan It never can happen Again I. x. 139 Contrast it with the dowdy personnel and awkward manners of the political gentleman's wife.
3. attrib. and Comb., as personnel audit, personnel car, personnel carrier, personnel department, personnel management, personnel manager, personnel officer, personnel policy, personnel procurement, personnel secretary, personnel transfer capsule; personnel-designating adj.; personnel-wise advb.
1967Coulthard & Smith in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 211 Personnel audit—in the same way that a firm's accounts are audited, or the stockrooms checked periodically, it is desirable to maintain an accurate analysis of the company's personnel needs—in managerial, clerical, sales, and manufacturing areas—together with an assessment of its strengths, as made up by the individuals concerned.
1914Illustr. London News 17 Oct. 540/2 The personnel-car of the Schneider gun-train. 1945Finito! Po Valley Campaign (15th Army Group) 51 A German convoy of two 170 mm cannon pulled by prime movers and followed by personnel carriers swung out of a side road. 1975N.Y. Times 8 Sept. 2/2 A modern armored personnel carrier is one of Israel's obvious military needs. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Sept. 9/1 The Post Office says there are now 908 ‘mailmobiles’ or ‘personnel carriers’ operating across Canada. 1977Time 25 July 37/1 A wave of Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers rolls across the northern German plain.
1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday vi. 32 Mr. Cheviot..was very keen on the personnel department and welfare generally. 1962E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization vii. 55 The personnel department is also responsible for keeping detailed records of each employee and for authorizing salary payments. 1973E. Pace Any War will Do (1974) i. 15 All the famous benefits the personnel department was always talking about.
1963F. G. Lounsbury in S. Koch Psychol. VI. 570 Lexical units in kinship terminologies can differ, as between different societies, in two aspects of their meanings: the ‘personnel-designating’ aspect and the ‘role-symbolizing’ aspect.
1957Clark & Gottfried University Dict. Business & Finance 265/1 Personnel management, the branch of business management concerned with the administration and direction of all of the relations between a company and its employees. 1959Cambr. Rev. 6 June 575/1, I have heard personnel management described as a career that the liberal-minded, not unintellectual arts graduate of this university can take up without being accused of selling himself to mammon. 1973‘M. Underwood’ Reward for Defector v. 38 He would need a bread and butter job... He mentioned personnel management.
1926M. S. Leuck Fields of Work for Women vii. 74 (heading) Personnel manager. 1951J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge i. i. 21, I have a friend..who's now the personnel manager at Whatmore's. 1973Personnel manager [see labour relations s.v. labour n. 8].
1957C. Smith Case of Torches xi. 132 The women's personnel officer was tall, smart and superior. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot iii. 430 Old Shuffler suggested that I got a job as secretary to a personnel officer at some big works in the London area. 1976M. Hinxman End of Good Woman x. 139 ‘Work your way up, lad,’ the personnel officer told him.
1949M. Mead Male & Female xvii. 349 The personnel policy is protecting the firm, not the married men and women. 1950N.Y. Times 20 Apr. 1/3 Donald Dawson, an administrative assistant responsible for personnel procurement, who has the never-ending task of seeking and investigating candidates for important vacancies.
1923H. Crane Let. 10 June (1965) 136, I don't know many at the office yet..but I've already been invited out to tea by the personnel secretary. 1965Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 11 Sept. 8/1 Doctors say a swift rise to the surface would probably be fatal. So the aquanauts will enter a special personnel transfer capsule that will take them to the surface where they will enter a decompression chamber on the mother ship's deck. 1975Offshore Aug. 54/3 The personnel transfer capsule (PTC) was launched from the YDT to carry out open sea dives to 1,000 ft.
1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 250 The practice [of forming adverbs from nouns by adding -wise] quickly spread from the admen to the bureaucrats and the educationists and soon yielded curriculumwise,..personnelwise and weatherwise. |