labour force

English

Alternative forms

• labor force (US)

Noun

labour force (plural labour forces) (British spelling)

1. The collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
   • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. works staff cut by a third”, in Modern Railways, page 221:

     Of the total labour force now threatened with redundancy, of course, a proportion will be covered by natural wastage, so that the number eventually thrown out of railway work will be well below 19,000.

Translations

people available for employment

• Catalan: mà d'obra f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勞動力 / 劳动力 (zh) (láodònglì)

• Finnish: työvoima (fi)
• French: main-d’œuvre (fr) f
• Georgian: სამუშაო ძალა (samušao ʒala)
• German: Arbeitskraft (de) f
• Greek: εργατικό δυναμικό n (ergatikó dynamikó)
• Hungarian: munkaerő (hu)
• Italian: manodopera (it) f
• Japanese: 労働力 (ja) (rōdōryoku), マンパワー (manpawā)
• Maori: hunga mahi, taimahi
• Mongolian: ажиллах хүч (ažillax xüč)
• Portuguese: mão de obra (pt) f
• Romanian: forță de muncă (ro) f
• Spanish: mano de obra (es) f
• Swedish: arbetskraft (sv) c
• Turkish: iş gücü (tr)
• Ukrainian: робо́ча си́ла (uk) f (robóča sýla)

See also

• workforce
• jobforce