Illustration: At a Japanese pear orchard during harvest, a coordinated group works along one heavily laden row. Two people pick fruit from low platforms, another receives filled baskets, and others sort pears into crates and carry them to a waiting handcart.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

労ろう働どう力りょく

roudouryoku

workforce, labor

Example sentences

  1. コンピューター・プログラマーの労働力ろうどうりょくが不足ふそくしている。

    There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.

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  2. 日本にっぽんは減少中げんしょうちゅうの出生率しゅっしょうりつに対処たいしょするため、労働力ろうどうりょくがもっと必要ひつようになるだろう。

    Japan will need more labor to cope with its declining birthrate.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 戦争せんそうが国くにの資源しげんと労働力ろうどうりょくを使つかい果はたしてしまった。

    War bankrupted the nation’s resources and manpower.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 労働力

  • 労labor; thank forOnロウKunろうする・いたわる・いたずき
  • 働work; (kokuji)OnドウKunはたらく
  • 力power; strengthOnリョク・リキ・リイKunちから

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