Definition of "workpeople" []

• Chiefly British Those who work for wages; workers. (noun-plural)

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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."
• "It was taking advantage of their workpeople being almost starved; but they would starve entirely rather than come into such terms."
• "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."