English

Etymology

Noun

1. The total number of all available workers; the workforce.
2. The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)

Translations

• French: main d'œuvre
• German: Arbeitskraft
• Italian: manodopera (all senses)

• Manpower, either an abstract term for human labour effort (as opposed to machines, animals etc.) or the number of human productive units available/needed for professional or other tasks, also used when referring to such personnel as a resource (e.g. "a manpower shortage")
• Manpower, a 1941 film starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft
• Manpower, the workload one person can handle, compare to the term horsepower
• Manpower Inc., an international employment agency, headquartered in the US
• Manpower (album), a Hi-NRG album by Miquel Brown
• "The Manpower!!!", a song by Morning Musume
• Manpower Services Commission - a large building in Sheffield, England housing civil servants of the DfES and DWP
• Manpower, an all male revue from Australia of which Jamie Durie is a past member
• manPower (band), an electronica band from Missouri
• Manpower Incorporated (Honorverse), a fictional business in the series of Honor Harrington novels by David Weber, published by Baen Books.
• The Manpower Directorate http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/homefront/reserved_occupations.asp was a division of the Australian Government responsible for active service and support industry recruitment during World War II to combat labour shortages in strategic areas.