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say it: pur-suh-NEL
personnel is a noun meaning "group of people willing to obey orders". It carries 2 recorded senses.
group of people willing to obey orders
“a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens”
the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for personnel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.