how to pronounce personnel

/ˌpɜː.sənˈɛl/

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the above transcription of personnel is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

personnel is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of personnel in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the real cost of anti-personnel mines …”

meaning of personnel

Personnel is a group of people who work for a particular company or organization.

personnel frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word personnel occurs in english on average 33.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics personnel can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that personnel can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;