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Discover LudwigThe phrase "drain of manpower" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a reduction or loss in the number of people available to work or serve. Example: The company's expansion plans were put on hold due to the drain of manpower caused by the sudden resignation of several key employees.
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Thanks to hindsight, it is not difficult now to see that some measure to stop the drain of manpower — perhaps the erection of a wall — was imminent.
Even in Naples, the sudden emergence of women as bosses is less a reflection of their new empowerment and ruthlessness than a drain of manpower, with women being drafted to replace male relatives in jail or killed in clan rivalries.
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Agriculture in all the occupied countries suffered heavily from the destruction of facilities and farm animals, the lack of machinery and fertilizers, and the drain on manpower.
Barter is also an enormous drain on manpower.
With World War II draining his adopted country of manpower, he left school at 16 to work at Canadian Breweries (now Carling).
This is something that could be detrimental in the longer term a brain drain, if you will, or a loss of manpower".
"It's also a waste of manpower.
Many reservists work for police and fire departments, which suffer from a drain in manpower.
Unlimited engineering manpower is not available so requests should be rejected for lack of manpower.
"It's a problem of manpower and time.
The Unemployment Effects of Minimum Wages, International Journal of Manpower.
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