Definition of "laypeople" []

• Laymen and laywomen. (noun-plural)

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• "Instead, it was attended by Vatican emissaries, hundreds of laypeople from the underground Church, several underground priests, and more than a dozen government representatives."
• "His mousetrap analogy is flawed, and appeals to things in laypeople that are highly misleading (it misled you, for instance, and it is especially misleading in the implication that we should look at the issue as one of taking a part away from a complex system, or in assuming that all parts all exist for only a certain function instead of potentially being exapted)."
• "During my discussions with 'laypeople' about space -- I do regular, voluntary space history lectures for the Public, at a local museum -- I often get the line "but the Moon's been explored by mankind; why go back?""