labor force

1. 1.

   the source of trained people from which workers can be hired

   Synonymslabor pool

   Broaderlabor

Questions about labor force

What does labor force mean?

labor force means "the source of trained people from which workers can be hired".

What is another word for labor force?

Close synonyms include labor pool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is labor force a common word?

labor force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.