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labour force

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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).

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

labour law labour lawyer labour market labour of love labour pain Labour Party

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