労働力|ろうどうりょくroudouryoku

1. nounlabor; labour; manpower; working force
   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.

• SynonymマンパワーNeutralLoanword for manpower, used mostly in business and management contexts, as in 「マンパワー不足」.
• Synonym人手ひとでNeutralCommon in speech for workers on hand, as in 「人手が足りない」; focuses on people actually available at the site rather than labor as an economic resource.
• Related人員じんいんNeutralNumber of personnel on a roster, as in 「人員削減」; concerns headcount and staffing rather than the capacity or ability to work.
• Related稼働人口かどうじんこうWrittenWritten-style term for the population of working age or actually working; statistical flavor and much rarer than 労働力.
• Related労働力人口ろうどうりょくじんこうWrittenStatistical term for the labor force: employed people plus the fully unemployed. 「労働力」 itself refers to labor capacity or manpower, not the population count.
• Related労働人口ろうどうじんこうWrittenLoose term for the working population, counting either those employed or those of working age; the standard statistical term is 「労働力人口」.

Use 「労働力」 for labor as an economic resource, as in 「労働力不足」; for being short of hands on site say 「人手不足」; for the statistical population use 「労働力人口」. 「マンパワー」 suits business talk, 「人員」 headcount.

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1. 物ものを生産せいさんしたり役務えきむを提供ていきょうしたりするために使つかわれる知力ちりょくや体力たいりょく。