Labourer vs Manpower - What's the difference?
labourer | manpower |
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, title= The total number of all available workers; the workforce.
The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)
As nouns the difference between labourer and manpower
is that labourer is while manpower is the total number of all available workers; the workforce.labourer
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Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer .}} British English forms ----
