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).

Translations

people available for employment

• Catalan: mà d'obra f
• Finnish: työvoima (fi)
• French: main-d’œuvre (fr) f
• German: Arbeitskraft (de)
• Greek: εργατικό δυναμικό n (ergatikó dynamikó)
• Hungarian: munkaerő (hu)
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• Italian: manodopera (it) f
• Maori: hunga mahi, taimahi
• Mongolian: ажиллах хүч (ažillax xüč)
• Romanian: forță de muncă (ro) f
• Swedish: arbetskraft (sv) c
• Turkish: iş gücü (tr)

See also

• workforce
• jobforce