"manpower" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-manpower.ogg [US]
Etymology: man + power Etymology templates: {{compound|en|man|power}} man + power Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} manpower (uncountable)
  1. The total number of all available workers; the workforce. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-manpower-en-noun-BtxBK24Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.) Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Units of measure Translations (power exerted by a single person): ihmisvoima (Finnish), miesvoima (Finnish), man de obra (Galician), manodopera [feminine] (Italian), forza lavoro [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-manpower-en-noun-vctNdvxR Disambiguation of Units of measure: 26 74 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 63 Disambiguation of 'power exerted by a single person': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: manpowered

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