WORKFORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workforce mean? 

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

1. the force of workers available

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKFORCE (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 ("workforce" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "workforce"):

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

Meronyms (members of "workforce"):

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

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

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

 Context examples 

If you were part of the workforce, you saw great progress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As in Spain, the rate was affected by incoming workforce migration from Eastern Europe.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Countries like Romania, Poland and Bulgaria experienced massive workforce migration to Western European countries and they are showing negative population growth rates over most of the last decade.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)