labor forces

plural of labor force

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Recent Examples of labor forces In turn, the city leased those assets to private operating companies, which provided the trains and labor forces. Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026 Its outcome could define how far immigration officers may go in workplaces across the country, shaping protections for millions of Americans employed in industries with large immigrant labor forces and testing whether the Fourth Amendment meaningfully constrains interior enforcement. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 Anecdotally, executives at companies ranging from Walmart to Accenture have said the technology will drastically reshape their labor forces. Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor forces
Noun
  • Now, advanced and sophisticated products are helping growing companies extend the impact of their existing workforces in ways that previously weren’t realistically attainable.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The companies with the most resilient workforces have made investment in employee trajectory a structural commitment, not a line item that disappears when headcount pressure arrives.
    Susan LaMotte, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • On the first Saturday of the 2026 college football season, several games around the country featured record-breaking temperatures that tested players, coaching staffs and fans in the stands.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The department requested the city’s City Planning and Dangerous Buildings staffs to assess the structure.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Combination plans cover both, often with optional add-ons for items such as pools or septic systems.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Yet, despite having pristine pools of first-party consumer insights, many CDPs remain passive archives—costly repositories of record that store data rather than act on it in real time.
    Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Labor forces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20forces. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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