powernoun(STRENGTH)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Workers in general
a man/woman of actionidiom
anti-labour
beaver
cheap labour
contract worker
cutter
labour
labour force
labour market
machinist
night shift
relay
skeleton staff
slogger
staff
staffing
the shop floor
workhorse
working group
working party

manpower | American Dictionary

manpower
noun[ U ]
us/ˈmænˌpɑʊ·ər/
the supply of people who are able to work:
For years there was a shortage of manpower in engineering.

manpower | Business English

manpower
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈmænˌpaʊər/us
HR, WORKPLACE
the supply of people who are able to work or who are needed to do a particular job:
trained/skilled manpowerNew initiatives will focus on improving the quality of trained manpower.
The manpower shortage has officers working 12-hour shifts.

Examples of manpower

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The long-term solution to the acquisition of adequate scientific manpower is training in the countries concerned.
Military power was no longer based simply upon manpower.
It follows that securing a successor or supplementary manpower was difficult and the smooth development from one family life-cycle stage to another was often obstructed.
Over eighty per cent of the population lives in the 100,000 villages whose manpower is the country's principal asset.
As the number of referrals has greatly increased, issues of available manpower, time and cost have been raised, especially in today's cost containment environment.
The sub-committee on manpower was given the task of reviewing the problem of speedy procurement and the maximum utilization for war of the nation's manpower.
Their manpower was limited and their military equipment negligible.
The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runaway train ' of social progress.
It may be that there is not enough money or manpower to market a production to attract the audiences it deserves.
It added, rather, to the atmosphere of suspicion over manpower figures.
As graphic hardware becomes cheaper, the cost of computer animation is bound increasingly to the cost of the skilled manpower involved.
It is impossible to put two such considerations side by side and say which manpower policy was right.
There may be practical constraints (such as manpower and available facilities) preventing large numbers of replicates from being measured at each assay.
Competing demands for manpower created considerable friction between the army and arsenals.
In terms of manpower, the firms employed, or had the capacity to employ, more than 50 workers.
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additional manpower
But that does require a margin of additional manpower.
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