manpowern.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmanpaʊə/, U.S.

/ˈmænˌpaʊ(ə)r/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: man n.¹, power n.¹

Etymology: < man n.¹ + power n.¹, after horsepower n. (see quots. 1859 at sense A. 1, 1862 at sense A. 1).

A. n.

1. Human energy; the power or agency of a person expending energy. Formerly also: a unit or rate of power, variously reckoned as between an eighth and a tenth of one horsepower (horsepower n. 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > man-power

people power1649

manpower1825

muscle force1897

Norwegian steam1944

personpower1973

society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > in relation to employer or capitalist > collectively > power of

manpower1825

woman power1825

the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > specific quantities or units of energy or work

horsepower1806

foot-pound1847

foot-ton1860

kilogrammetre1866

erg1873

kilerg1873

indicated horsepower1881

metre-ton1881

joule1882

watt-hour1888

manpower1893

horsepower-hour1899

horse1904

1825 Republican 18 Feb. 222 The human body, as a whole, is a self-moving, self-supplying, steam-engine, not of a horse-power, but of a man or woman-power.

1859 De Bow's Rev. May 565 It would be extremely interesting to know how much labor, expressed in man-power and horse-power, is now being performed by steam in our plain.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §56. 209 When horse-power and man-power were alone employed.

1872 Ann. Rep. Aëronaut. Soc. 15 At an angle of ten degrees, about one man power would be sufficient to drive an aëroplane machine twenty miles an hour.

1893 Eng. Mechanic Dec. 332/2 Maxim's early trials gave..about 1 lb. per man-power.

1944 Amer. Speech 19 106 Norwegian steam is brute manpower.

1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 240 The mere transport of these by manpower would have involved the labour of perhaps 100,000 levies.

1992 R. Moulton & P. Lloyd Kites (BNC) 162 Lee Sedgwick's party piece involves self-launching a quad-line ‘Revolution’ javelin fashion, snatching the lines into tension and flying a routine largely through sheer manpower.

a. The number of people available for employment, military service, etc., considered collectively; human labour in general, esp. viewed as a quantifiable resource. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources > consisting of people

human resources1915

manpower1917

man-strength1931

peopleware1974

1917 W. S. Churchill in World Crisis (1927) III. i. 378 It is not possible to settle the question of man-power without a clear idea of the plan of campaign.

1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo xii. 60 Biggest piece of political camouflage ever attempted, the Man-Power bill is.

1939 Fortune Oct. 41/1 A totalitarian dictatorship can wipe out unemployment by conscripting manpower at the expense of living standards.

1950 Economist 9 Dec. 1002/2 The United States must now raise its sights, in terms of both manpower and production.

1972 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 16 A great deal of manpower was being wasted before the merger.

1995 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 18 Dec. 39 Dartmouth captain Robbie Dickson scored what proved to be the winner early on in the third period, with a screen shot from the point while his team was enjoying a five-on-three manpower advantage.

b. Manpower Services Commission n. (in the United Kingdom) a government organization set up in 1974 to oversee and advise upon issues relating to unemployment and vocational training; see also MSC n. at M n. Initialisms 1.The Manpower Services Commission was renamed the Training Commission in 1988; this was then dissolved the following year and its functions were transferred to the Secretary of State.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility > English or British

admiralty1459

ordnance1485

Navy Office1660

navy board1681

patent office1696

excise-office1698

Treasury Office1706

Plantation Office1708

stamp office1710

War Office1721

India Office1787

home office1795

Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues1803

the Stamps1820

Welsh Office1852

W.O.1860

Local Government Board1871

pall-mall1880

Scottish Office1883

Ministry of Munitions1915

War House1925

Min of Ag1946

Mintech1967

DOE1972

Manpower Services Commission1973

1973 Times 30 Aug. 15/7 Sir Denis Barnes..will be the chairman of the Manpower Services Commission, which will be set up next year to help people into suitable jobs and provide suitable workers for employers.

1975 (title) Annual report of the Manpower Services Commission 1974–75.

1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space iv. 95 A special ‘task force’ which brought together various government departments, the Manpower Services Commission, and managers from private industry, to identify blockages in bureaucracy and promote on-the-ground initiatives.

1997 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 27 June The association was given grants by the Manpower Services Commission to help the long-term unemployed.

B. adj. (attributive).

Designating a vehicle or machine driven by human energy; cf. man-powered adj. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [adjective]

manpower1890

1890 Cent. Mag. Dec. 234/1 The only exception is, perhaps, the ‘jinrikisha’, or man-power carriage, invented in 1870.

1898 Cent. Mag. July 346 Jinrikisha,—those most fascinating man-power carriages.

1914 Atlanta Constit. 24 Jan. 12/3 These [motor-driven] chairs will seat two passengers, and will be operated in a manner similar to the familiar ‘man power’ chairs now in service in Atlantic City..and other resorts.

1919 Brit. Manufacturer Nov. 25/1 One of these man-power ploughs, adapted for small holdings and for use on terraced land, is driven by a cable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

manpowerv.

Brit.

/ˈmanpaʊə/, U.S.

/ˈmænˌpaʊ(ə)r/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: manpower n.

Etymology: < manpower n.

1. transitive. U.S. regional (southern). To move (a thing) by human effort or energy.

ΚΠ

1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders 32 Often it meant to chop a fallen tree out of the road, and then, with handspikes, ‘man-power the log outen the way’.

1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 563 Man-power, to employ the force of man. ‘I don't know whether I can man-power this boat against that current or not.’

1976 A. Garber Mountain-ese 56 We'll have to manpower the train back onto the tracks.

2. transitive. To provide or run (a business, project, factory, etc.) with human labour.

ΚΠ

1950 Personnel 26 434 (title) Manpowering the President's ‘Point 4’ Program.

1991 Recorder (Nexis) 11 Sept. 15 Stemple..had neither the talent nor the resources to litigate the cases. But he had an idea. ‘I could create a network of firms I would coordinate and control and they would have primary financial responsibility of manpowering the cases.’

1999 Malaysia Econ. News (Nexis) 2 Apr. The plant is expected to be initially manpowered by 100 local staff.

3. transitive (usually in passive). Australian and New Zealand colloquial. During the Second World War (1939–45): to conscript (a person) for non-military service as part of the war effort. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)] > for non-military service

manpower1952

1952 J. A. Thomson Deer Hunter 122 A few months later I was ‘manpowered’ out of the Army by the Director of Deer Operations for six months in the upper Waitaki country.

1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) ii. 22 I've worked in the mill ever since they manpowered me durin' the war.

1976 Art N.Z. Dec. 43/1 Pacifists were sent to camps or manpowered to essential industries.

1984 J. Frame Angel at my Table iv. 35 During the summer of that year other students and I were ‘manpowered’ to pick raspberries on Whittakers' farm at Millers Flat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	manpower
释义	manpowern.adj. Brit. /ˈmanpaʊə/, U.S. /ˈmænˌpaʊ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: man n.¹, power n.¹ Etymology: < man n.¹ + power n.¹, after horsepower n. (see quots. 1859 at sense A. 1, 1862 at sense A. 1). A. n. 1. Human energy; the power or agency of a person expending energy. Formerly also: a unit or rate of power, variously reckoned as between an eighth and a tenth of one horsepower (horsepower n. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > man-power people power1649 manpower1825 muscle force1897 Norwegian steam1944 personpower1973 society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > in relation to employer or capitalist > collectively > power of manpower1825 woman power1825 the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > specific quantities or units of energy or work horsepower1806 foot-pound1847 foot-ton1860 kilogrammetre1866 erg1873 kilerg1873 indicated horsepower1881 metre-ton1881 joule1882 watt-hour1888 manpower1893 horsepower-hour1899 horse1904 1825 Republican 18 Feb. 222 The human body, as a whole, is a self-moving, self-supplying, steam-engine, not of a horse-power, but of a man or woman-power. 1859 De Bow's Rev. May 565 It would be extremely interesting to know how much labor, expressed in man-power and horse-power, is now being performed by steam in our plain. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §56. 209 When horse-power and man-power were alone employed. 1872 Ann. Rep. Aëronaut. Soc. 15 At an angle of ten degrees, about one man power would be sufficient to drive an aëroplane machine twenty miles an hour. 1893 Eng. Mechanic Dec. 332/2 Maxim's early trials gave..about 1 lb. per man-power. 1944 Amer. Speech 19 106 Norwegian steam is brute manpower. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 240 The mere transport of these by manpower would have involved the labour of perhaps 100,000 levies. 1992 R. Moulton & P. Lloyd Kites (BNC) 162 Lee Sedgwick's party piece involves self-launching a quad-line ‘Revolution’ javelin fashion, snatching the lines into tension and flying a routine largely through sheer manpower. 2. a. The number of people available for employment, military service, etc., considered collectively; human labour in general, esp. viewed as a quantifiable resource. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources > consisting of people human resources1915 manpower1917 man-strength1931 peopleware1974 1917 W. S. Churchill in World Crisis (1927) III. i. 378 It is not possible to settle the question of man-power without a clear idea of the plan of campaign. 1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo xii. 60 Biggest piece of political camouflage ever attempted, the Man-Power bill is. 1939 Fortune Oct. 41/1 A totalitarian dictatorship can wipe out unemployment by conscripting manpower at the expense of living standards. 1950 Economist 9 Dec. 1002/2 The United States must now raise its sights, in terms of both manpower and production. 1972 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 16 A great deal of manpower was being wasted before the merger. 1995 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 18 Dec. 39 Dartmouth captain Robbie Dickson scored what proved to be the winner early on in the third period, with a screen shot from the point while his team was enjoying a five-on-three manpower advantage. b. Manpower Services Commission n. (in the United Kingdom) a government organization set up in 1974 to oversee and advise upon issues relating to unemployment and vocational training; see also MSC n. at M n. Initialisms 1.The Manpower Services Commission was renamed the Training Commission in 1988; this was then dissolved the following year and its functions were transferred to the Secretary of State. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility > English or British admiralty1459 ordnance1485 Navy Office1660 navy board1681 patent office1696 excise-office1698 Treasury Office1706 Plantation Office1708 stamp office1710 War Office1721 India Office1787 home office1795 Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues1803 the Stamps1820 Welsh Office1852 W.O.1860 Local Government Board1871 pall-mall1880 Scottish Office1883 Ministry of Munitions1915 War House1925 Min of Ag1946 Mintech1967 DOE1972 Manpower Services Commission1973 1973 Times 30 Aug. 15/7 Sir Denis Barnes..will be the chairman of the Manpower Services Commission, which will be set up next year to help people into suitable jobs and provide suitable workers for employers. 1975 (title) Annual report of the Manpower Services Commission 1974–75. 1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space iv. 95 A special ‘task force’ which brought together various government departments, the Manpower Services Commission, and managers from private industry, to identify blockages in bureaucracy and promote on-the-ground initiatives. 1997 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 27 June The association was given grants by the Manpower Services Commission to help the long-term unemployed. B. adj. (attributive). Designating a vehicle or machine driven by human energy; cf. man-powered adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [adjective] manpower1890 1890 Cent. Mag. Dec. 234/1 The only exception is, perhaps, the ‘jinrikisha’, or man-power carriage, invented in 1870. 1898 Cent. Mag. July 346 Jinrikisha,—those most fascinating man-power carriages. 1914 Atlanta Constit. 24 Jan. 12/3 These [motor-driven] chairs will seat two passengers, and will be operated in a manner similar to the familiar ‘man power’ chairs now in service in Atlantic City..and other resorts. 1919 Brit. Manufacturer Nov. 25/1 One of these man-power ploughs, adapted for small holdings and for use on terraced land, is driven by a cable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manpowerv. Brit. /ˈmanpaʊə/, U.S. /ˈmænˌpaʊ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: manpower n. Etymology: < manpower n. 1. transitive. U.S. regional (southern). To move (a thing) by human effort or energy. ΚΠ 1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders 32 Often it meant to chop a fallen tree out of the road, and then, with handspikes, ‘man-power the log outen the way’. 1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 563 Man-power, to employ the force of man. ‘I don't know whether I can man-power this boat against that current or not.’ 1976 A. Garber Mountain-ese 56 We'll have to manpower the train back onto the tracks. 2. transitive. To provide or run (a business, project, factory, etc.) with human labour. ΚΠ 1950 Personnel 26 434 (title) Manpowering the President's ‘Point 4’ Program. 1991 Recorder (Nexis) 11 Sept. 15 Stemple..had neither the talent nor the resources to litigate the cases. But he had an idea. ‘I could create a network of firms I would coordinate and control and they would have primary financial responsibility of manpowering the cases.’ 1999 Malaysia Econ. News (Nexis) 2 Apr. The plant is expected to be initially manpowered by 100 local staff. 3. transitive (usually in passive). Australian and New Zealand colloquial. During the Second World War (1939–45): to conscript (a person) for non-military service as part of the war effort. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)] > for non-military service manpower1952 1952 J. A. Thomson Deer Hunter 122 A few months later I was ‘manpowered’ out of the Army by the Director of Deer Operations for six months in the upper Waitaki country. 1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) ii. 22 I've worked in the mill ever since they manpowered me durin' the war. 1976 Art N.Z. Dec. 43/1 Pacifists were sent to camps or manpowered to essential industries. 1984 J. Frame Angel at my Table iv. 35 During the summer of that year other students and I were ‘manpowered’ to pick raspberries on Whittakers' farm at Millers Flat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1825v.1913
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