workforces

noun

plural of workforce
as in staffs
a body of persons at work or available for work the office's entire workforce is devoted to a single project right now

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Recent Examples of workforces Regional industry networks would combine technology and talent to create more agile workforces, new capabilities, lines of business, and growing market shares. — Byron Auguste, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 The agriculture industry needs a flexible visa program that addresses both seasonal and year-round workforces. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 The remarks show that policymakers are moving from debating whether AI will disrupt jobs to deciding how to cushion the fallout, at a time when rapidly aging populations, particularly in Asia, already threaten to shrink workforces. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026 Throughout the world, rapidly aging countries have resorted to foreign labor to fill jobs left vacant by shrinking workforces and to care for surging elderly populations. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026 The most urgent demand is coming from industrial sectors facing aging workforces and persistent labor shortages. — Artem Sokolov, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 There’s a chance this doesn’t resolve at all until next spring or beyond, leaving two major Hollywood studios’ workforces, at just about every level of the pecking order, in limbo, wondering whether they’ll be canned in a few months. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workforces
  1. staffs
  2. pools
  3. workers
  4. employees
Noun
  • Spotters then have a direct line to reach team medical staffs at games.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The team that finished 24th in the league in runs scored, exploding for seven runs in game one of the ALCS against one of the best pitching staffs in baseball.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of staffs
Noun
  • That calculus changes as AI systems connect to larger pools of internal data.
    — Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Rooms are below and the pools and gardens on the ground floor – though this does make the lifts a little confusing as numbers go up even though floors go down.
    — Siobhan Grogan, TheWeek, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of pools
Noun
  • As part of orchestrating this project, Simon was also involved in securing visas for the various international performers, encountering in the process the uneven access to travel for cultural workers across classes, nationalities, and milieus.
    — Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The circumstances and cultural details may vary, but these unequal power dynamics between families and their domestic workers exist everywhere, to different degrees.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of workers
Noun
  • The program—announced at the Ai Everything conference in the capital–will give government employees hands-on experience with tools such as ChatGPT, Codex, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Keith David, Macon Blair, Killer Mike, Cody Lightning, Siena East, and Michael Hitchcock all return as some of Lee’s Tulsa-area buddies, employees, and resentful acquaintances.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of employees

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“Workforces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workforces. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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