labour force

labour force noun: the collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).

Noun

labour force (plural labour forces)

(UK) The collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
- Of the total labour force now threatened with redundancy, of course, a proportion will be covered by natural wastage, so that the number eventually thrown out of railway work will be well below 19,000.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. works staff cut by a third”, in Modern Railways, page 221

labour force meaning in Tamil and Kannada

labour force in Tamil

தொழிலாளர் வளம், தொழில் அணி

labour force in Kannada

ಕಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಬಲ, ಶ್ರಮಿಕ ಪಡೆ, ಕಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಪಡೆ

Forms of labour force

plural	labour forces
alternative form	labor force

Questions about labour force

What does labour force mean?: Labour force means the collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
What is labour force in Tamil?: Labour force in Tamil is தொழிலாளர் வளம், தொழில் அணி. See Labour force meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is labour force?: Labour force is a noun.
What is the plural of labour force?: The plural of labour force is labour forces.

Words near labour force in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: labour force (page history and authors); labour force (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); labour force (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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