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

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

Jammed and squashed into nine large halls, some 30,000 workpeople heard the Prime Minister's husky voice, mostly from the lipless mouths of loud speakers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I’m tremendously interested in the factory—and in the workpeople.

From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills