WordNet
n. the source of trained people from which workers can be hired [syn: labor force]
Usage examples of "labor pool".
The Big Island of Hawaii was not rural, not urban, but dirt-poor, serving as a labor pool for cheap manual workers.
Most slaves would receive amnesty, since Poritrin needed the labor pool, but the insurrection leader could not be forgiven.
Since it had been over three weeks since BLX-5 had been heard from, and the labor pool managers figured the droid was long gone and reassigned his work designation to another droid.
He was supposed to be pure Labor Pool and didn't even know that silence was the guardian of the LP: Learning silence, you learn what to hear.
That labor pool, plus taxes on private co-ops for use of the land and its resources, will enable us to guarantee the so-called social rights we have been discussing-housing, health care, food, education- things that should not be at the mercy of market rationality.
That labor pool, plus taxes on private co-ops for use of the land and its resources, will enable us to guarantee the so-called social rights we have been discussing—.
She'd spent some of the most miserable days of her teen years in a youth labor pool, swept off the streets with hundreds of others by a labor pressgang.