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manpower

[man-pou-er] / ˈmænˌpaʊ ər /
NOUN
laborers
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Manpower cost savings are likely from 2028 onward, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Kelly Services and Manpower seem tantalizingly cheap, respectively trading for just three times and eight times the earnings per share expected for the coming 12 months.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

Per the Milwaukee outlet, Kobylarczyk has been let go from her job at the recruitment agency Manpower Group.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025

"Manpower would also be an issue. Western Europe would have to look to Poland to see the level of manpower they would need."

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2025

The long walk to the Manpower Directorate, the sheer mindlessness of compiling names and addresses day after day, exhausted him, she knew, yet he came home each day with lit-up eyes.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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