1 the supply of people who are able to work: --
For years there was a shortage of manpower in engineering.
2 the supply of people who are able to work or who are needed to do a particular job: --
In terms of manpower, the firms employed, or had the capacity to employ, more than 50 workers.
Competing demands for manpower created considerable friction between the army and arsenals.
There may be practical constraints (such as manpower and available facilities) preventing large numbers of replicates from being measured at each assay.
It is impossible to put two such considerations side by side and say which manpower policy was right.
As graphic hardware becomes cheaper, the cost of computer animation is bound increasingly to the cost of the skilled manpower involved.
It added, rather, to the atmosphere of suspicion over manpower figures.
It may be that there is not enough money or manpower to market a production to attract the audiences it deserves.
The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runaway train ' of social progress.