Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The power of human physical strength.
- n. Power in terms of the workers available to a particular group or required for a particular task. See Usage Note at man.
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- n. The total number of all available workers; the workforce.
- n. The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the force of workers available
Etymologies
Examples
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The freedom of info exercise we completed showed that 42% (at absolute best) of the manpower is available for response.
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And what's happened, Larry, is that we have begun to substitute firepower and precision firepower, air delivered, ground delivered, rocket delivered, for what I call manpower and blood.
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Even if Sutton does win, it will pull resources, both financially and in manpower, that could have gone elsewhere.
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If 60% of manpower is non-operational, this would be a 30% increase in overall operational capacity in man-hours on the street and targeted.
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It would cost them more in manpower to do all the leg work (including the prosecution) than it is for the actual amount of the fine.
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SEATTLE Most small-business owners don't realize this yet, but a mother lode of technology that can free precious cash and manpower is available to them as in no other time in history.
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If Soviet forces occupied southern France the West would have virtually no strategic depth and thier huge advantage in manpower wold do a great deal to offset any technological inferiority.
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Despite the increase in manpower required to look after Allied interests in Germany, the U.S. embassy staff was still overwhelmed by the clerical work.
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While it may be more profitable for the Orbital in that the need for manpower is less, at this time of a recession don't we need quality jobs that the space shuttle workers do?
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In response to them, opponents of the war should confront them with the true cost in manpower and resources needed to win the war.
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oroboros commented on the word manpower
One-tenth of a horsepower.
July 26, 2009