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manpower
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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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a labour/manpower shortage (= a shortage of people to do work ) ▪ During the war, there was a severe labour shortage, so women began doing jobs they had never done before. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE skilled ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the force of workers available [syn: work force , workforce , hands , men ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1855, from man (n.) + power (n.). Proposed in 1824 as a specific unit of measure of power.
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.