'Personnel' definitions:
Definition of 'personnel'
From: WordNet
noun
Group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn: force, personnel]
noun
The department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management [syn: personnel department, personnel office, personnel, staff office]
Definition of 'Personnel'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'personnel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crew,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- employees,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fighting force,
- fill-in,
- firepower,
- force,
- forces,
- gang,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hands,
- help,
- hired help,
- imitation,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- men,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- next best thing,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- retinue,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servantry,
- sign,
- spares,
- staff,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- the big battalions,
- the help,
- third string,
- token,
- troops,
- understudy,
- units,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- work force