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human resources

[ hyoo-muhn ree-sawr-sis, ree-zawr-siz, yoo-muhn ]

noun

  1. (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  2. (used with a singular verb) human resources department.


human resources

plural noun

    1. the workforce of an organization
    2. ( as modifier )

      human-resources officer

      human-resources management

    1. the office or department in an organization that interviews, appoints, or keeps records of employees
    2. ( as modifier )

      a human-resources consultancy

  1. the contribution to an employing organization which its workforce could provide in effort, skills, knowledge, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of human resources1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

After receiving the message, she said she decided to report the allegations from her time in Seoul to the company’s human resources director, hoping to see an investigation.

Other companies look to the tech industry for ideas on how to structure their workforces and set human resources policies.

At AWS, I’m lucky to have great human resources partners who help me understand the numbers within our team.

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A human resources manager within the state Division of Personnel and Labor Relations, Camille Brill, asked the woman to meet.

My plan was to walk into the human resources office, show them the letter from Marshall Loeb, and ask for a job.

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But instead of board member, the definitive organizational role in contemporary corporatism is (yep) the human resources manager.

It speaks volumes that the President of the United States would believe his own human resources need to be managed in such a way.

He is the drone official, the bland-faced human-resources manager tasked with dropping the axe.

Nolen proceeded directly from human resources to the front office.

With California hiring rules already cumbersome, he said, he bit the bullet and outsourced human resources.

A variety of geographical resources and of human resources results in diversity in the economic life of the state.

She evinced no self-adulation, and no undue dependence upon human resources.

All of them were well fitted to rebuke that pride in human resources which had been the occasion of his sin.

He had a more modest estimate of human resources for forming true judgments in religion, and a Religious Toleration.

But He will teach us the utter barrenness of all human resources.

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