manpower

noun

Definition of manpowernext
as in staff
a body of persons at work or available for work we're a little short on manpower today, so we'll need you to do some extra tasks

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  1. staff
  2. workforce
  3. personnel
  4. pool
Noun
  • The Trump campaign staff members seemed to be having a lot more fun than the Democrats in the room.
    Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The respect that Edison High football players have for their coaching staff is one of the positives of attending the Huntington Beach school.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of staff
Noun
  • Of the more than 11,000 deaths reported worldwide, nearly 4,000 occurred in Sierra Leone, which also suffered the loss of 7 percent of its healthcare workforce to the crisis.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The company slashed more than 10% of its global workforce in April, citing a need to cut costs.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of workforce
Noun
  • This requires personnel hours—expensive, specialized mechanics, in a sense—that modern systems can eliminate.
    Eric Bernstein, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Cavallo took aim at the company’s executives, including Chief Executive Officer Oliver Blume, who has largely deferred any substantial role in the negotiations to brand chief Thomas Schäfer and personnel chief Gunnar Kilian.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of personnel
Noun
  • But health insurers are typically doing the bidding of the employer who hires them or the government that pays them to administer a pool of money, which are premiums paid by consumers, taxpayers, workers or employers.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Although facial recognition software has come a long way in the past two decades, Duffey said, the image is likely not clear enough to get a reasonably small pool of matches.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of pool
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