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Answer for the clue "Group of people willing to obey orders ", 9 letters:
personnel

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Word definitions for personnel in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Personnel \Per`son`nel"\, n. [F. See Personal .] The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from mat['e]riel.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES personnel carrier COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE armoured ▪ I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius. ▪ He was handcuffed to another prisoner and placed in an army, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. employees; office staff

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, from French personnel (a contrastive term to matériel ), noun use of personnel (adj.) "personal," from Old French personel (see personal ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn: force ] the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for seting policies for personnel management [syn: ...

Usage examples of personnel.

CBA television and radio network and affiliated stations, strict financial controls had been introduced, budgets pared and redundant personnel dismissed.

It would yield much of the broader, strategic analytic duties and personnel to the NCTC.

More and more she was convinced that the whole Pell operation was busywork, that Mazian might be doing precisely what she had advised all along, keeping the troops busy, keeping even his crews and captains busy, while the real operation here was that on Downbelow and what he proposed with the mines and short-haulers, the gathering of supplies, the repairs, the sorting of station personnel for identification and capture of all those fugitives who might surface and make takeover easy and cheap for Union.

Admiral Houser, releasing all stores in this vicinity, and all logistics personnel, to the control of the base commander.

Efforts, however, are underway to establish a viable predictive model which will integrate the various tectonic, geologic, hydrological, and seismic dynamics presently under investigation by Geosciences Department personnel.

Lo Manto turned away from her and surveyed the scene behind them, where a crowd of police personnel had gathered.

Nelson Milliard, the top boss, said something about a later discussion concerning personnel for the mission?

It was simply accepted that Starfleet personnel who had earned the opportunity to serve on a starship were among the most loyal and balanced the system could produce, so why spend time and engineering effort preventing such people from misusing controls when they would never choose to do so in any case?

The gunners in the armored car turrets and the infantrymen huddled behind vision blocks in the sides of their armored personnel carriers could see nothing--until Molt warriors tele ported into the valley.

It indicated a change since the power outage, at least, a change in where Algini estimated personnel were grouped, where they traveled.

By stressing the social equity of the work of tax assessment and by co-opting personnel who might otherwise have been expected to belong to the Parlementaire camp, the government was trying to show that the reforms were popular rather than bureaucratic.

And in January 2003, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers sent out a memo forbidding enforcement personnel from ticketing polluters who fill or foul isolated wetlands without first clearing each case with Washington, D.

What I do plan to do, incidentally, is slip away under the pretext of being called to a top-level conference on the redeployment of personnel from here and the selection of a substitute base-location, and by the time they finish investigating the circumstances I should have the rope braided to hang Quist by the neck.

Add in a tight schedule, a hyperkinetic character, and several reshoots of key scenes due to personnel hirings and firings, and I was left even more ragged than usual.

They took turns at it, arranging sleeping hours so that only half the personnel was on deck at any one time and then reshuffling the groups so that there was a change of faces.