force
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7.3
- noun
- /fɔrs/
- Jargon
- For example, legal discrimination against women's participation in the labor force can lead to distorted labor markets and lower economic performance.
Examples
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Each month, millions of people move between labor force statuses (for example, from unemployed to employed).
Academic text (2018) -
CALVIN (OC): Because he's forced out at third! It's a force! ADAM (OC)
Fiction book (1999) -
-And gets the force at third.
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Between the 2000 and 2004 elections, the labor force grew by four million people.
Academic text (2005) -
However, the labor force calculations are not a central part of her argument.
Academic text (1994) -
Yet the progress of integrating mothers into the labor force has not come without challenges.
Academic text (2012) -
In baseball, the runner was out due to a force at second base, as the fielder touched the base before he arrived.
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The coach explained that a force occurs when a defensive player touches the base with the ball ahead of the runner.
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During the game, the team executed a force play effectively, getting the runner out at third base.
Synonyms
1
7.2
A baseball out that happens when a fielder holding the ball touches the base a runner must reach
1
7.3
A play where a runner must advance and a fielder with the ball touches the base first
1
7.8
A play when a runner must go to a base and a player holding the ball touches it first
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
4
8.3
Make someone accept ideas or opinions they do not want by pressuring them
- Informal
3
6.7
A wish of good luck people say to encourage someone, often playfully
Compounds
472
2.8
A branch of a country's military that uses planes to fight and protect the country
29
3.8
A group of soldiers and other people trained to protect a country from attack
16
3.3
A branch of the United States military that fights in the air and space
13
2.7
The part of the United States military that flies planes and defends the country in the air and space
- Specialized
11
5.7
The push you feel when you speed up, compared with normal gravity like on a roller coaster
- Specialized
9
4.2
A pull between all objects, especially Earth's pull on things near its surface
8
3.8
The army, navy, and air force of Israel working together to protect the country
- Formal
5
9.8
A large unexpected event like a natural disaster or war that prevents someone from fulfilling a contract
- Specialized
4
7.3
A force that holds protons and neutrons together inside an atom's nucleus
- Literature
4
6.8
A group of people trained like soldiers to act with or for the army
- Specialized
3
8.3
A basic interaction in nature that causes some radioactive decay and acts on particles like neutrinos
3
6.5
A group of armed fighters who use sudden attacks against a larger army in rural areas
2
7.9
An evil part of a mysterious power that bad characters use in Star Wars
1
3.9
A group of guards a company or person hires to protect people and property
- Specialized
1
7.2
An imaginary line that shows the direction of force at points in an electric or magnetic field
A United States military school in Colorado Springs that trains Air Force officers
- Specialized
1
8.1
A push that makes moving things curve on a rotating body like Earth
1
7.0
A group of armed fighters not part of the official army who use surprise attacks and sabotage
1
5.8
A former part of the United States Air Force that managed military space and missile operations
- Specialized
1
4.7
A pull that makes two things move toward each other, like gravity or magnets
- Specialized
1
8.2
An area around something where its push or pull affects other things
- Specialized
1
8.7
A force on a moving electric charge caused by electric and magnetic fields
- Specialized
1
6.7
Invisible lines around a magnet that show which way its pull points
- Specialized
1
9.2
An attack by a large group of soldiers to test the enemy and collect information
- Jargon
1
7.2
A baseball out that happens when a fielder holding the ball touches the base a runner must reach
1
4.0
A school that trains people to be officers in the US Air Force at Colorado Springs
- Specialized
1
5.0
A United States Air Force group that researches and develops new aircraft and space technology
- Specialized
1
7.3
A play where a runner must advance and a fielder with the ball touches the base first
- Literature
1
7.7
A part of Star Wars about a good kind of power that Jedi use
- Specialized
1
6.0
A push or pull from air on something moving through it, for example lift and drag on a wing
- Specialized
1
6.4
Energy from a source that makes electricity flow in a circuit, measured in volts
1
9.9
An illegal armed group in Colombia formed in 1997 that fought and sold drugs
1
2.9
A branch of the United States military that uses planes and works in space to defend the country
- Offensive
1
9.9
A violent armed group in Northern Ireland formed in 1996 that was against the peace process
- Specialized
1
7.7
A force that pushes against a moving object, like air or water, to slow it down
- Specialized
1
7.8
A play when a runner must go to a base and a player holding the ball touches it first
- Specialized
An imaginary line showing the direction a positive electric charge moves and how strong the field is
- Specialized
A list of metals that shows which metal can replace another in a liquid
- Specialized
A system that uses a pump to push oil under pressure into an engine's moving parts
- Specialized
A unit for measuring the force that pushes a magnetic field through a circuit
Surface Forms
Etymology
Force in baseball is called that because a runner is 'forced' to move, so the play is about making someone move to the next base. The sports meaning comes from the verb idea of using power to make someone 'move', which is the same root idea as force.