workpeople

American  

[wurk-pee-puhl] / ˈwɜrkˌpi pəl /

plural noun

1. people employed at work or labor; workers; employees.

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workpeople British  

/ ˈwɜːkˌpiːpəl /

plural noun

1. the working members of a population, esp those employed in manual tasks

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Etymology

Origin of workpeople

First recorded in 1700–10; work + people

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

workpeople

Droning the same long story at her about faceless workpeople is very different from brisk storytelling about colleagues she knows.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023

I worked in Mexico for almost a decade, and … one of the things that happened was I’d gotten to know a lot of local workpeople who assisted with excavations, many from low-income rural communities.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2013

Finally the 1,000,000 workpeople who continue unemployed in Great Britain should be able to find many a job in the producing industries which Chancellor Churchill proposes to assist or partially subsidize.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Paris, drowsy tourists and blowsy workpeople heard a hum and saw the Graf Zeppelin in the morning sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the workpeople had got away safely except two women and a boy on the fourth floor.

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