Workforce

Quick meaning: Workforce is a noun meaning All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.

Example Sentences

The rail sector's ageing workforce (28% of workers are over 50 years old) means that about 15,000 people could retire from the industry by 2025.

But much of the federal workforce is located outside the nation’s capital, and Trump’s offer was met with confusion and skepticism in many of those offices.

“There is no question the US economy will get smaller as you deport a lot of the workforce,” Kent Smetters, professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said in an interview.

Word Forms

• workforces
• work force

Synonyms for workforce

Depending on context, synonyms include manpower, jobforce, liveware, personnel, staff, hands.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include manpower, hands, personnel, employee, headcount, workplace.

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