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# workforce

noun (a workforce, workforces — usually singular)

«workforce» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A workforce is all the people who work for a company, factory or organisation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#m1)
2. The workforce of a country is all the people who are able to work there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#m2)

### In the lessons

In social studies, business and news: a factory has a workforce of 200; a country's workforce. In maths word problems in formal voice, the workforce is the total number of workers: «a workforce of 240 is split into 8 equal teams». Plain words: the workers, staff.

### Examples

- The factory has a workforce of 300 people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x1)
- Half of the workforce works at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x2)
- A workforce of 240 split into 8 equal teams gives 30 workers per team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x3)
- The company is training its workforce to use new machines. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x4)
- Women make up a large part of the workforce. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x5)
- The hospital's workforce includes doctors, nurses and cleaners. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/#x6)

### Note

Usually singular: «the workforce is» (UK may say «are»). One word: work + force. Similar: staff, employees, labour force. In maths, «a quarter of the workforce» means total ÷ 4.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «workforce» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/workforce/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«workforce» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/workforce.html) on Mova free.