MEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does men mean? 

• MEN (noun)
  The noun MEN has 1 sense:

1. the force of workers available

  Familiarity information: MEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The force of workers available

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hands; manpower; men; work force; workforce

Hypernyms ("men" is a kind of...):

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Meronyms (parts of "men"):

shift (a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time)

Meronyms (members of "men"):

crew; gang; work party (an organized group of workmen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "men"):

complement; full complement (number needed to make up a whole force)

 Context examples 

Men have a firm step, and when they walk over peas none of them stir, but girls trip and skip, and drag their feet, and the peas roll about.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

No, she can't bear fashionable young men, and she'd shut us all up in bandboxes rather than have us associate with them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Next morning the Scarecrow said to his friends: Congratulate me. I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When I return I shall be as other men are.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I have as companions three remarkable men, men of great brain-power and of unshaken courage.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other men had discovered the trick of expression, of making words obedient servitors, and of making combinations of words mean more than the sum of their separate meanings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The men slept, breathing heavily, side by side, under the one covering.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they had seen a swimming house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I asked what time the men landed, and he said 20:17 UTC, but the men stayed inside the spacecraft for 6 hours and 39 minutes.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The study found that feeling lonely was a stronger predictor of poor outcomes than living alone, in both men and women.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A myofibroblastoma occurring in the breast of both women and men.

(Breast Myofibroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)