LABOR FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does labor force mean? 

• LABOR FORCE (noun)
  The noun LABOR FORCE has 1 sense:

1. the source of trained people from which workers can be hired

  Familiarity information: LABOR FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABOR FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The source of trained people from which workers can be hired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

labor force; labor pool

Hypernyms ("labor force" is a kind of...):

labor; labour; proletariat; working class (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages)

 Context examples 

The labor force available to do work on a project

(Manpower, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of applied psychology that is concerned with efficient management of an industrial labor force and especially with problems encountered by workers in a mechanized environment.

(Industrial Psychology, NCI Thesaurus)