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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Wiktionary
n. 1 The total number of all available workers; the workforce. 2 The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)
WordNet
n. the force of workers available [syn: work force, workforce, hands, men]
Wikipedia
Manpower, or human resources, are the people of a workforce in an organisation
Manpower may also refer to:
Manpower is an album by Miquel Brown, recorded in 1983. Includes the major international hits "So Many Men, So Little Time" and "He's a Saint, He's a Sinner" which peaked at number two and number twenty-nine respectively on the US dance charts, as well as the moderate hits "Beeline" and "Sunny Day."
"So Many Men, So Little Time" is considered by many within the male gay community to be one of the greatest dance songs from the 1980s. It was included in the 1997 independent film, Kiss Me, Guido and in the 1998 queer coming of age film, Edge of Seventeen.
Manpower was a short propaganda film produced by the US Office of War Information in 1942.
Made early shortly after America's entry into World War II, the film addressed the problems associated with the labor market adjusting for war time, such as people with the wrong skills rushing to a town looking for war work, and labor shortages in essential industries. The film discusses how the Roosevelt administration dealt with the problem by the establishment of the Federal Employment Commission, which brought together representatives from labor, management, and the military to organize war production effectively, the test case being in the city of Baltimore.
In spite of this action, there were labor shortages, and people had to be taken from other occupations and put into war work. Different examples are given and briefly dramatized:
- a man who has seniority working in a white collar profession is promised his position back when he returns to work after the war
- small businessmen are persuaded to sell their shops and go into war production
- Negroes are taken from menial jobs like custodians, and put to work welding
- women are taken from domestic life and put in to work that is adjusted for "feminine muscles" (the film points out that taking a job doesn't affect their husbands' draft status)
- women with small children will have access to day care
Finally, a few more possibilities are noted, but left undramatized, such as retired people coming back to work, the handicapped are recruited and America's "youth" going into agricultural labor. It is noted that these youth programs are voluntary, but it's possible that the government could make youth participation mandatory.
Manpower is a 1941 film drama directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft. The picture was written by Richard Macauley and Jerry Wald, and the supporting cast features Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane, Ward Bond, and Walter Catlett.
Robinson and Raft got into a fistfight on the set that was eagerly splashed all over the front pages of the nation's newspapers. Victor McLaglen was originally going to play Robinson's role, which would have made it a supporting part, and Raft reportedly resented sharing leading man status on the film as a result of Robinson being cast instead.
Raft chose Manpower over the remake of the 1931 pre-Code version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, and the career-catapulting role of Sam Spade went to Humphrey Bogart instead.
The script is one of many reworkings of the plotline for a 1932 Robinson movie called Tiger Shark, in which Robinson played essentially the same part, only as a tuna fisherman rather than an electric power lineman.
Usage examples of "manpower".
The sky was a bottomless well into which Earth poured her tools, dollars, manpower, and engineering skill.
They were taking the long way around, because Mearl understood that taking the capital of the greatest nation in the world required more manpower than his thirty or so militia members, none of whom had actually served in a peacetime army or national guard, much less fought in an actual war.
Bobby John Club, Sutter Walk, Posties, a few others, as much as manpower allows.
He and Russo who was actually wearing a white turtleneck sweater were sitting at a table in the back at ManPower, a gay bar in the West Village, with Jim Slattery and Special Agent Victor Valone.
Time, equipment and manpower were scarce commodities which could not be wasted upon satisfying Marsological curiosity.
A parallel team of FBI agents from the New York JTTF had been tracking these cell members prior to the Harrisburg sessions, but in January of 1993, just weeks before the Trade Center blast - reportedly out of a concern that this second probe was sapping FBI manpower - Carson Dunbar shut it down as well.
Small counties often had complicated cases that required more manpower than they had on staff.
They had, moreover, to economize their shrinking manpower, and their reserves were being called off from all the Eastern fronts to more urgent tasks elsewhere, leaving Russia to stew in its own disintegration.
We have material, and manpower, gallons of crew-brain-swarms, software, hardware, greenware, wetware, smallware, largeware, sumware, and noware, all waiting now to merge with you.
To the War Manpower Commission, in the case of noncomplying individuals, directing the entry of appropriate orders relating to the modification or cancellation of draft deferments or employment privileges, or both.
It soon became the main event of the week, and with all the free manpower and womanpower at our disposal, our discos became regular happenings for the Parisian teenyboppers.
Manpower bigshots and goons, bound and helpless, surrounded by their victims.
Don DiMilo put his entire resources and considerable manpower to the hunt for the missing hitman but it was all to no avail.
This in particular was a stunning sign of the erosion of containment: not only was China a member of the P-5 and therefore one of the countries most responsible for seeing the implementation of Security Council resolutions, but this was a massive project in terms of money, manpower, and geographic scope.
Church of Humanity Unchained which had finally shaken the female Scrags loose from their lingering attachment to Manpower.