tenaga kerja
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of tenaga (“energy”) + kerja (“work”), calque of Dutch arbeidskracht (“worker, labour”, literally “workforce”).
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Noun edit
tênaga kêrja (first-person possessive tenaga kerjaku, second-person possessive tenaga kerjamu, third-person possessive tenaga kerjanya)
- labor, labour:
- workers in general
- the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- workforce:
- all the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.
- (demography) the total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.
- Synonym: angkatan kerja
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Further reading edit
- “tenaga kerja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.