Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Those who work for wages; workers.
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- noun Plural form of
workperson .
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Examples
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There still are, however, many employers to whom the happiness and welfare of their workpeople is a matter of deepest concern.
Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War Alfred Hopkinson 1895
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It is well known, that there is no religionist so zealous as a convert; no masters so stern, and regardless of the interests of their workpeople, as those who have risen from such a station themselves.
Mary Barton 2010
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It was taking advantage of their workpeople being almost starved; but they would starve entirely rather than come into such terms.
Mary Barton 2010
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And you know Ivan ... he was worried both about his workpeople losing their jobs and about himself losing face and credibility.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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The ultra-modern Matsushita Electric plant maintains a room reserved for workpeople who harbor repressed feelings, where they can go and regain self-control.
Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009
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When she passed the factory in working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to laugh and sing.
Les Miserables 2008
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Wages may be raised here and there by skilful organisation, though even in these cases the capitalist will generally contrive to recoup himself by raising prices, by introducing labour-saving devices, or by "speeding-up" his workpeople.
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I know that the small amount he possesses is to go to an institution for indigent old workpeople.
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I know that the small amount he possesses is to go to an institution for indigent old workpeople.
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At night, when the workpeople went away, the house was dreary and deserted again; and Florence, listening to their voices echoing through the hall and staircase as they departed, pictured to herself the cheerful homes to which the were returning, and the children who were waiting for them, and was glad to think that they were merry and well pleased to go.
Dombey and Son 2007
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