manpower
IPA: mˈænpaʊɝ
noun
- The total number of all available workers; the workforce.
- The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)
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Examples of "manpower" in Sentences
- This is due to the use of unskilled manpower.
- The main problem for the British was manpower.
- It speaks to the obvious limitations of manpower.
- There is a growing need for the trained manpower.
- The second obstacle was the massive reduction in manpower.
- The Berliners themselves solved the other problem regarding manpower.
- Campus has well recruited manpower to cater the needs of the students.
- A cholera epidemic severely reduced the manpower of the American forces.
- The British lacked the manpower to assault the city and remained inactive.
- In Singapore, the work permit process is managed by the Ministry of Manpower.
- Even if Sutton does win, it will pull resources, both financially and in manpower, that could have gone elsewhere.
- The freedom of info exercise we completed showed that 42% (at absolute best) of the manpower is available for response.
- It would cost them more in manpower to do all the leg work (including the prosecution) than it is for the actual amount of the fine.
- If 60% of manpower is non-operational, this would be a 30% increase in overall operational capacity in man-hours on the street and targeted.
- And what's happened, Larry, is that we have begun to substitute firepower and precision firepower, air delivered, ground delivered, rocket delivered, for what I call manpower and blood.
- SEATTLE Most small-business owners don't realize this yet, but a mother lode of technology that can free precious cash and manpower is available to them as in no other time in history.
- If Soviet forces occupied southern France the West would have virtually no strategic depth and thier huge advantage in manpower wold do a great deal to offset any technological inferiority.