industrial workforce

collocation in English

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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workforce
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈwɜːk.fɔːs/us
/ˈwɝːk.fɔːrs/
the group of people who work in a company, industry, ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandworkforcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The polytechnics should be the major re-trainers of theindustrialworkforceas well as the teachers of 18 year-olds.
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Education and training are key elements in creating anindustrialworkforce.
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It will antagonise managers and disfranchise half ourindustrialworkforce.
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Theindustrialworkforceis superb.
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The features of this problem are a smaller but more highly educatedindustrialworkforce, high investment in automated systems and new technology, and the development of the supporting service sector.
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I should hate to think that the training of our broadcasting staff might fall to the level that this programme stated was the case with ourindustrialworkforce.
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At its relative height during this period, textile production employed approximately one million workers, or roughly 1/3 of theindustrialworkforce.
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The textile industry, based on cotton and flax, employed about half of theindustrialworkforcefor much of the industrial period.
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An additional 30,000 are involved in administrative andindustrialworkforceand students.
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Its purpose was to bring serenity and a farm type lifestyle to a select group of the urbanindustrialworkforce.
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Their workers, almost half of theindustrialworkforce, suffered from rising unemployment.
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The skill standards represent the best practices for high-performance work and define the skills and knowledge required to ensure a skilled, mobileindustrialworkforce.
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Returning soldiers disproportionately displaced female and minority workers who had entered theindustrialworkforceonly when the war left employers no other choice.
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Their 1.3 million workers, half of the remainingindustrialworkforce, were deemed redundant.
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He took part in cotton manufacturing, theindustrialworkforcein a cotton company.
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Theindustrialworkforceis almost totally unionized.
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The production of textiles and clothing is part of a growing manufacturing sector that accounted for approximately 34% of total exports in 2002, employing 40% of theindustrialworkforce.
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On the other hand, members of theindustrialworkforceinvolved in munitions production are not eligible, as they overwhelmingly lived at home and were subject to standard civilian working conditions.
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The key is an aggressive work-up on the health issues for a given segment of theindustrialworkforce, and usually broken down by type of work (which makes sense).
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