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Manpower is all the workers you have — or can get — for a job: enough people to run a factory, staff a hospital, or fill an army. Offices and newspapers still say “a manpower shortage” when they mean “not enough hands.” It is a slightly official, older-sounding word. Though actually, it has long meant people of any gender, not only men; even so, many workplaces now prefer workforce or staff, because manpower can sound as if only men count. It is not “a man’s physical strength.” You also see it in company names, where it just means “workers we can send.”
人力、人力資源
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
manpowernoun
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The total number of all available workers; the workforce.
- Near-synonyms: human resources, personnel
- phased increases in manpower
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The power exerted by a single person.
- canals dug entirely by manpower
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。