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View synonyms for workforce

workforce

or work force

[ wurk-fawrs ]

noun

  1. the total number of workers in a specific undertaking:

    a holiday for the company's workforce.

  2. the total number of people employed or employable:

    a sharp increase in the nation's workforce.



workforce

/ ˈwɜːkˌfɔːs /

noun

  1. the total number of workers employed by a company on a specific job, project, etc
  2. the total number of people who could be employed

    the country's workforce is growing rapidly



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Word History and Origins

Origin of workforce1

First recorded in 1940–45; work ( def ) + force ( def )

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Example Sentences

By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.

Brennan is expected to address the CIA workforce at headquarters on Tuesday.

This workforce is being legalized at a time of unusual economic distress for the working class.

Companies are also intolerant of violence in the workplace because it undermines workforce stability and hampers productivity.

Informal workers make up  over half the workforce in much of urban African.

Officially, in excess of one third of the workforce is unemployed.

But literacy projected its characteristics onto the entire activity, thus making a literate workforce desirable.

Schools used to be able to prepare students to find their place in the workforce even before graduation.

Others were drained of almost one half of the growth in their educated workforce (for instance, Israel during the 1980s).

With cheap, educated workforce – they can monopolize basic data processing and telecommunications functions worldwide.

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