workforces
- 1Plural of workforce.
The merger combined the workforces of three regional companies.
Aging workforces present a challenge for several European economies.
Note
A plural that counts groups, not people. Each workforce is already a whole body of workers, so adding -s means several such bodies: the staffs of merging companies, or the employable populations of different countries. Both meanings of the singular pluralize this way. When the individuals belong to one group, keep the singular. A company's workforce grows; it does not gain workforces.
workforces is a form of workforce
workforce, noun: All the people employed by a particular organization or government, or working on a specific project. Full entry
- Forms
- workforceworkforces plural
- Spelling
- workforce → workforces: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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