workforce
or work force
the total number of workers in a specific undertaking: a holiday for the company's workforce.
the total number of people employed or employable: a sharp increase in the nation's workforce.
Origin of workforce
1- Also called labor force.
Words Nearby workforce
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How to use workforce in a sentence
The company said its revenue rose by sixfold, its workforce tripled to more than 150 people and the number of lenders on its platform doubled over the past year.
MotoRefi raises $10M to keep pedal on auto refinancing growth | Kirsten Korosec | January 22, 2021 | TechCrunchThe Labor Department investigator concluded that the company was violating federal law and cheating its workforce.
All a Gig-Economy Pioneer Had to Do Was “Politely Disagree” It Was Violating Federal Law and the Labor Department Walked Away | by Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin | January 22, 2021 | ProPublicaThey often also went to libraries or workforce centers to search for jobs online.
On surviving—and leaving—prison during a pandemic | Sarah Scoles | January 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAnticipating that the remote working trend will stick even if the virus is eliminated, TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen says the company anticipates more group travel as diasporic workforces look to meet up quarterly or weekly.
Slowly, they’re looking to increase female participation in the workforce — it has risen from 11 percent to nearly 18 percent over the past decade in the UAE, and more marginally in Saudi Arabia, according to the World Bank.
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.
CIA Won’t Defend Its One-Time Torturers | Shane Harris, Tim Mak | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis workforce is being legalized at a time of unusual economic distress for the working class.
Legal but Still Poor: The Economic Consequences of Amnesty | Joel Kotkin | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCompanies 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.
After the Rain | Sam VakninBut literacy projected its characteristics onto the entire activity, thus making a literate workforce desirable.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinSchools used to be able to prepare students to find their place in the workforce even before graduation.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinOthers were drained of almost one half of the growth in their educated workforce (for instance, Israel during the 1980s).
After the Rain | Sam VakninWith cheap, educated workforce – they can monopolize basic data processing and telecommunications functions worldwide.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for workforce
/ (ˈwɜːkˌfɔːs) /
the total number of workers employed by a company on a specific job, project, etc
the total number of people who could be employed: the country's workforce is growing rapidly
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