workpeople

[ wurk-pee-puhl ]

plural noun

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

workpeople

/ ˈwɜːkˌpiːpəl /

plural noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of workpeople¹

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

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

I myself saw the corpse lying in state, and the priests standing round incessantly whispering and laughing; and at this moment, when masses are being said for his soul, they are in the very same church hammering away at the scaffolding of the catafalque, so that the strokes of the hammers and the noise of the workpeople entirely prevent any one hearing the religious services.

From Project Gutenberg

All this forms a most repulsive contrast; and yet to me it is still more repugnant that you 148 must entirely renounce the great pleasure of seeing happy faces; for even when you have given the richest gratuities to guards, waiters, or workpeople, in short, to whom you will, the invariable rejoinder is, "Nienti di pi�?" in which case you may be very sure that you have given too much.

From Project Gutenberg

His odd cleverness, however, does not seem to have been appreciated; and it is told of him that amongst other boys he was known as ‘Fooly Smeaton,’ for though forward enough in putting questions to the workpeople, amongst boys of his own age he was remarkably shy, and, as they thought, stupid.”

From Project Gutenberg