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# workforce

«workforce» in Mova's school dictionary: **all the people who work for a company, factory or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a workforce, workforces — usually singular)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A workforce is all the people who work for a company, factory or organisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#m1)

2) The workforce of a country is all the people who are able to work there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In social studies, business and news: a factory has a workforce of 200; a country's workforce. In maths word problems in formal voice, the workforce is the total number of workers: «a workforce of 240 is split into 8 equal teams». Plain words: the workers, staff.

### examples

- The factory has a workforce of 300 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x1)
- Half of the workforce works at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x2)
- A workforce of 240 split into 8 equal teams gives 30 workers per team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x3)
- The company is training its workforce to use new machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x4)
- Women make up a large part of the workforce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x5)
- The hospital's workforce includes doctors, nurses and cleaners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x6)

### note

Usually singular: «the workforce is» (UK may say «are»). One word: work + force. Similar: staff, employees, labour force. In maths, «a quarter of the workforce» means total ÷ 4.

### In the corpora

- ["Workforce adjustment" means layoffs (business jargon, common in Canada).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «workforce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.