manpower

Converse of object

• require: This requires greater manpower for each unit than the usual operating strength.
• lack: The city has closed a few over the past two years but has lacked the manpower to be more effective.
• reduce: Options for Change and the Defense Costs Studies reduced regular manpower.
• provide: We do not provide manpower for users ' work except by specific prior agreement.
• train: George mentioned that the problem is trained manpower, it is not possible to mount two shifts.
• add: L Laws Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Adjective modifier

• trained: Such doctors represent a net loss of trained medical manpower from a country with an acute shortage of doctors.
• skilled: Finding the skilled manpower to tackle the task is a very real issue.
• sufficient: So how does one get a structure with sufficient manpower to even start looking?
• military: Why would not Russia's giant military manpower be welcomed to join fully in the " international war against terrorism " ?
• additional: The local Police Division on which a hunt takes place normally provides additional manpower.
• limited: With their limited manpower they cannot ask everybody individually.

Modifies a noun

• shortage: The manpower shortage which gave priority to fighting the Picts left the dead unburied.
• planning: The problem was short term manpower planning in an agency which processed contract clerical work.
• implication: Topical treatments will need regular application, with increased manpower implications.
• requirement: Whilst the manpower requirements may be achievable, in other areas the ERRF is severely lacking in capacity.
• reduction: In parallel, British defense forces will benefit from significant manpower reductions compared with current systems.
• crisis: Recent initiatives to improve the manpower crisis by overseas recruitment have had limited success.

Noun used with modifier

• army: Will the draw down in army manpower be slowed in response to the new difficulties in Northern Ireland?
• police: The situation was worsened by the shortage of police manpower to satisfy the demands on them.