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laborshed

noun

laborshed

noun

Etymology By analogy from watershed, likening the regional workforce to the catchment of a river system.

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.2006 August 9, “Study: Worker pool overflowing”, in Telegraph Herald, Dubuque Iowa, page 1:

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