work force

1. 1.

   the force of workers available

   Synonymsworkforcemanpowerhandsmen

   Broaderforce

   Narrowercomplement

   Partsshift

Questions about work force

What does work force mean?

work force means "the force of workers available".

What is another word for work force?

Close synonyms include workforce, manpower, hands, men. 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 work force a common word?

work 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.