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workpeople [ˈwɜːkˌpiːpəl] pl n
(Sociology) the working members of a population, esp those employed in manual tasks How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Keeping ever close by the work of excavation, he busied himself incessantly with the welfare and health of his workpeople, and was singularly fortunate in warding off the epidemics common to large communities of men, and so disastrous in those regions of the globe which are exposed to the influences of tropical climates. The workpeople, to be sure--riggers and what not--were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that. While the workpeople are in the house, my duty as a servant gets the better of my feelings as a man. |
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