workforce

英 [ˈwɜːkfɔːs]

美 [ˈwɜːrkfɔːrs]

n.  全体员工; (国家或行业等的)劳动力，劳动大军，劳动人口

复数：workforces　

高考IELTS

Collins.2 / BNC.4217 / COCA.6617

牛津词典

noun

• 全体员工
  all the people who work for a particular company, organization, etc.
  1. The factory has a 1000-strong workforce.
     这家工厂的职工多达千人。
  2. Two thirds of the workforce is/are women.
     职工中的三分之二是妇女。
• （国家或行业等的）劳动力，劳动大军，劳动人口
  all the people in a country or an area who are available for work
  1. A quarter of the local workforce is/are unemployed.
     本地四分之一的劳动力都失业了。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (某一国家或地区的)劳动力，劳动人口
  Theworkforceis the total number of people in a country or region who are physically able to do a job and are available for work.
  1. ...a country where half the workforce is unemployed.
     有一半劳动力失业的国家
• N-COUNT (某公司的)全体员工，职工总数
  Theworkforceis the total number of people who are employed by a particular company.
  1. ...an employer of a very large workforce.
     雇用了大量员工的雇主

英英释义

noun

• the force of workers available
  Synonym:work forcemanpowerhandsmen

双语例句

• They reckoned he was a hatchet man, out to shred the workforce and crush the union.
  他们估计他是上司派来的刽子手，专门对工人大开杀戒，大肆镇压工会。
• Establishes the roles and responsibilities of management in communicating their support for this new mission to the workforce.
  设立管理层在向职工沟通管理层对新使命的支持过程中的角色和职责。
• Our workforce is highly trained and competitive.
  我们的员工队伍训练有素，竞争意识强。
• But as fewer young people enter the workforce, wages are now rising faster than productivity.
  但随着进入劳动力市场的年轻人愈来愈少，如今的工资增长速度已经超过了生产率。
• The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred
  工厂雇员总数已经从4,000多人减少到几百人。
• Fears about job security plague nearly half the workforce.
  几乎一半的员工担心失业。
• Women have increased their political participation and have massively entered the workforce.
  妇女提高了她们的政治参与率，大规模地进入了劳动大军。
• One factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six
  一家工厂不得不将员工人数从600名裁减至仅剩6名。
• Young people were several times more likely to be out of work than older members of the workforce
  劳动人口中，年轻人失业的可能性是年长者的好几倍。
• Second, even as the workforce declines, increased education and infrastructure spending will raise worker productivity.
  其次，即便劳动力减少，教育和基础设施投资的增加也会提高工人的生产力。