Definitions for workforce
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. work force, workforce, manpower, hands, mennoun

   the force of workers available

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1. workforcenoun

   All the workers employed by a specific organization or nation, or on a specific project

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1. Workforce

   The workforce or labour force is a concept referring to the pool of human beings either in employment or in unemployment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, state, or country. Within a company, its value can be labelled as its "Workforce in Place". The workforce of a country includes both the employed and the unemployed (labour force).

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1. workforce

   A workforce refers to all the employees or workers within an organization, sector or economy. It includes both the employed and those seeking employment. The workforce contributes to the production of goods and services in a company or an entire country.

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1. Workforce

   The workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, country, state, etc. The term generally excludes the employers or management, and implies those involved in manual labour. It may also mean all those that are available for work. Workers may be unionised, whereby the union conducts negotiations regarding pay and conditions of employment. In the event of industrial unrest, unions provide a co-ordinating role in organising ballots of the workforce, and strike action.

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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'workforce' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4237

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'workforce' in Nouns Frequency: #2200

How to pronounce workforce?

1. Alex

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of workforce in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of workforce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of workforce in a Sentence

1. Donald Duncan:

   In 1997 we were the fastest growing manufacturing metro area in the country and four years later it collapsed, what you can see on the ground today is 3,000 job openings. China's emergence as the world's low-cost producer and export superpower following its World Trade Organization entry in 2001 dealt a heavy blow to traditional industrial communities such as Hickory. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have tried to separate the impact of trade from other factors affecting U.S. manufacturing employment and they estimate that between 1990 and 2007 Hickory lost 16 percent of its manufacturing jobs just due to surging imports from China. DEEP SCARS. Buffeted by other headwinds, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade agreement and the lifting of textile quotas in 2004, the area lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs overall, half the total, between 2000 and 2009. Nationally, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 2000, a period that also included the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The collapse left deep and still visible scars that help explain the appeal of Trump's pledge to bring back manufacturing's glory days. In Hickory, disability rolls soared more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2014, swollen by older workers who struggled to return to the workforce. At the same time, the share of the 25-34 year old in the population fell by almost a fifth between 2000 and 2010. Consequently, even as the unemployment rate tumbled from a peak above 15 percent in 2010 to 4.6 percent today, below the national average, so did the labor force participation rate. It fell from above 68 percent in 2000 to below 59 percent in 2014. Poverty levels doubled. Yet the manufacturing upswing in areas that suffered the most during the downturn is evident. Rust belt states, such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that may prove pivotal in the Nov. 8 presidential election, have been adding manufacturing jobs faster than the economy as a whole. Michigan, for example, which lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009, has since then seen a 25 percent rise, well above the 4 percent gain nationally. Manufacturing employment there is still well below the levels in the 1990s. Economists debate whether returning to that level is realistic given technological advances that have reduced manufacturing's share of the workforce from a high of above 30 percent in the 1950s to around 8 percent today. But they also feel that have already seen the bottom, particularly when it comes to China's impact.

2. Masanori Kuwata:

   Any negative impact to our current situation could have a significant impact on our workforce, because of this, we opted to forgo raising base salaries this year.

3. Amanda Fairfax:

   They don't want either to invest the capital expenditure into the maintenance project or they don't want to have as many contract workers on sites as the additional influx of workforce might compromise people who have to remain at the refinery as essential personnel.

4. Robert LaRose:

   Broadband access is only the beginning, the workforce has to be retrained, and overall levels of educational attainment need to be raised, including both school children and mid-life career changers.

5. Julie Gerberding:

   I do really want to emphasize that while there is substantial opportunity here for evolution, modernization and performance improvement at the CDC, it has also done a lot of things well and we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that in the midst of a pandemic there were many other public health activities going on. CDC teams were deployed all over the United States and internationally to assist with local response efforts. The CDC Foundation stepped up and engaged some 3,000 or more people to help the workforce shortages and so forth, so there were a lot of very positive things that happened and we need to make sure that we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater here when we’re looking at the really critical things that need to be fixed, but also to appreciate and respect what our public health system has been able to accomplish for the past three years.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=workforce
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Workforce
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workforce
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=workforce