the working members of a population, esp those employed in manual tasks
workpeople in American English
(ˈwɜrkˌpipəl)
plural noun
British
workers; esp., industrial or manual workers
workpeople in American English
(ˈwɜːrkˌpipəl)
plural noun
people employed at work or labor; workers; employees
Word origin
[1700–10; work + people]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cirrus, cozy, emphatic, hump
Examples of 'workpeople' in a sentence
workpeople
Here he spent nearly two hours talking with many of the workpeople.