Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of labour force English)
WordNet
n. the source of trained people from which workers can be hired [syn: labor pool]
Usage examples of "labor force".
The engineers are getting down to it here in Sindi, but it looks like we're going to need a bigger labor force to pull this off.
During World War I, millions of women briefly entered the labor force, filling jobs previously held by men.
She wasn't sure what it meant, but it seemed to fit this situation, so she repeated it aloud as she slowly but steadily turned the labor force dial past 4, to 3 .
She wasn't sure what it meant, but it seemed to fit this situation, so she repeated it aloud as she slowly but steadily turned the LABOR FORCE dial past 4, to 3 .
They did not ignore the fact that such a dependence on a single transportation modality could make them vulnerable to attack, and so at every potential chokepoint, like river crossings, they'd used the ample labor force of their country to build multiple bridges, all of heavily-built rebarred concrete abutments.
In the midst of the great sweep to clear the fields, Steeds entire labor force was retracted.
Fertile Poritrin fed many less-fortunate planets, in return for which they received raw materials, equipment, manufactured goods, and human slaves to add to their labor force.
In about 1956 the United States became the first major power in which more than 50 percent of the non-farm labor force ceased to wear the blue collar of factory or manual labor.
The Southern economy rested on the backs of its black labor force.
We have no repair facilities, and no hope of restarting the industries-we had to loll nine tenths of die labor force over the past six days, or didn't you notice?