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词汇 labour-force
释义 labour force
noun[ U ]
UK(USlabor force)uk /ˈleɪ.bə ˌfɔːs/ us /ˈleɪ.bɚ ˌfɔːrs/
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all the people in a particular country who are of the right age to work, or all the people who work for a particular company劳动力
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labour force | Business English


labour force
noun[ C ]
 ECONOMICS, HR UK(USlabor force)ukus
all the people in a particular country who are of the right age to work, or all the people who work for a particular company:
Half of Britain's labour force works more than the maximum 48 hours a week.
Recession-ravaged manufacturers reduced their labour forces by more than 700,000.
a skilled/unskilled labor force
a casual/temporary labour force
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Examples of labour force


labour force
They participate in the labourforce, for example, without using paid childcare.
Another critical change to the terms of the debate was the increase in female participation in the labourforce.
The male labourforce increased by only 20 per cent between 1970 and 1999, while the female labourforce expanded by 139 per cent.
There are 755 women in the seasonal labourforce.
The second cluster includes the rate of unemployment, trade with low-wage countries, female labourforce participation and private service employment.
Further, a household's decisions to migrate and/or to participate in common property right creation are interrelated, being parts of its labourforce allocation decisions.
The data could, in principle, be affected by selective withdrawal from the labourforce before the statutory pension age.
The control for diagnosed illness outweighed the effect of poor health as the main motivation for leaving the labourforce.
The prime concern is sustaining the labourforce and economic competitiveness.
This limited the freedom of the labourforce in three ways.
Over the fiveyear period land-buying households increased their adult labourforce chiefly by bringing in a son- or daughter-in-law.
In contrast, almost a fifth of children aged five to nine in families headed by women were in the labourforce.
The reasons for leaving the labourforce are multifaceted.
More generally, variables contributing to income and therefore to meeting the minimum level of consumption, such as a high labourforce participation rate, decrease deforestation.
Consequently, we take the total employed labourforce as given by the data, and then specify this force as either rural or urban.
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