manpower

mano de obra, personal

Conjunto de trabajadores disponibles para realizar un trabajo.

En inglés sencillo: The workers available to do a job, considered together as a resource.

• We need more manpower.
• A shortage of manpower delayed the project.
• The company lacks the manpower to handle extra orders.

Sinónimos: workforce, staff, personnel

Expresiones frecuentes: manpower shortage, skilled manpower, enough manpower

fuerza humana

Esfuerzo físico de una persona, en lugar de la fuerza de una máquina o un animal.

En inglés sencillo: Physical effort supplied by a person, rather than power from a machine or animal.

• The pump runs on manpower.
• They moved the stone using manpower alone.
• The canal was dug entirely by manpower.

Sinónimos: human power, muscle power

Expresiones frecuentes: by manpower, pure manpower, manpower alone