| 释义 |
workpeople|ˈwɜːkˌpiːp(ə)l|
[work n.]
People employed in manual or industrial labour for a wage; workmen and (or) workwomen.
1708Caldwell Papers (Maitland Club) I. 216 You cannot imagine what a parcel of cheating brutes the work people here are. 1818Min. Evid. Committee Ribbon Weavers 152 How many people do they employ, weavers, warpers, winders and work people, of every description? 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. iv. §1 (1865) I. 69 Each capitalist has money, which he pays to his workpeople, and so enables them to supply themselves. 1883W. D. Curzon Manuf. Industries Worcs. 36 Mechanical skill on the part of the workpeople not being necessary—the machines in fact doing the most part of the work. |