manpower shortage
Not enough workers
A manpower shortage is a lack of available workers to fill needed positions.
The term appears in discussions of labor markets, military staffing, and industrial production: The factory closed due to a manpower shortage.
Despite the gendered root, manpower shortage applies to workforces of any composition.
Labor shortage means the same thing.
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- workersPeople doing jobs
- hiringGiving someone work
- staffingProviding personnel for positions
temp agency · understaffed · recruitment · now hiring · vacancy · employment · workforce · burnout · overtime · stretched · all hands on deck · skeleton crew · skeleton staff · talent · brain drain · headcount · payroll · shifts
- shortageswater shortage, labor shortage, housing shortage, supply shortage, cash shortage
- depletiondecline, deficit, shortage, exhaustion, depletion
- staffing problemsvacancies, shortage, turnover, layoffs, attrition
- overloadoverload, overwhelmed, excess, surplus, maxed out
manpower shortageoverstaffing
Surplus of workers
unemployment · job scarcity · joblessness · full employment · redundancy
power, manpower, manliness, manhood, unmanned, manned, manning, powerful, powerless