Laborshed
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A regional workforce, those available for and willing to work.
"Greater Dubuque Development Corp.'s 2006 analysis, conducted by Iowa Workforce Development, surveyed some 600 qualifying working-age residents in the multi-county laborshed area."
Example
More examples"Greater Dubuque Development Corp.'s 2006 analysis, conducted by Iowa Workforce Development, surveyed some 600 qualifying working-age residents in the multi-county laborshed area."
Etymology
By analogy from watershed, likening the regional workforce to the catchment of a river system.
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