How to say "manpower" in Japanese

• マンパワーCommon
  nounThe direct loanword, covering 'manpower' as the pool of workers or labor force available; it sits closest to the English term. Typical in business talk about whether a company or project has enough people.
  マンパワーは世界せかいで一番いちばん大おおきな人材派遣じんざいはけん会社かいしゃです。↗

  "Manpower" is the world's largest temp agency.
• 労働力ろうどうりょくCommon
  nounThe word for labor itself: manpower as a resource or capacity for work, not the individual workers. It also means simply 'labor', so it is at home in economic discussion of work and workers.
  コンピューター・プログラマーの労働力ろうどうりょくが不足ふそくしている。↗

  There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.

Both translate 'manpower': pick 「マンパワー」 for the English-like term for available workers or labor force, and 労働力 when framing it as labor itself — a resource or capacity for work in economic or workplace contexts.

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• マンパワーmanpower
• 労働力ろうどうりょくlabor
• 稼働人口かどうじんこうmanpower
• 人手ひとでlabor