labour force
noun [U] UK (US labor force)Definition
C2 all the people in a particular country who are of the right age to work, or all the people who work for a particular companyWorkers in general
(Definition of labour force noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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