working person
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkɪŋ ˈpɜrsən/
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trabajador
- Early mornings were the safest times for working people to travel.
- hard-working people
- many working people
- most working people
I think we do have a problem that working people are forced to use food stamps.
- I think we do have a problem that working people are forced to use food stamps.
- Most of our parents were just working people.
- When deficits rise, it is working people who suffer.
- I felt like he was from Scranton, PA, that he was on the side of working people.
- And and so in some sense, if it can appeal to the person, the working person in another state, not in the industry, right.
- And this this impression she gave Reeves in the election campaign and sense that taxes would not go up on working people is for the birds.
- Police are are some of the hardest working people I know who do a job that I'm not brave enough to do.
- And these these are normal, hard working people who want to be working but they can't because of the pandemic.
- So that working people, and we have good data on this, that working people could enjoy the galleries after dark.
- I mean, they're most of them are blue collar, hard working people that go out and work with their hands and they keep me grounded.
- And it subsides because more and more white working people and whites more generally are benefiting from New Deal programs, right?
- And men, although they're hard working people, they can't multitask.
Examples
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The victims were primarily working people in the prime of life, often the family breadwinners.
Academic text (2002) -
Most of us here in Rocinha and the other favelas around town are decent and hard-working people.
Academic text (2005) -
That ultimately is how working people throughout history have ever won anything.
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- No, it's mostly working people.
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The firm maintained Saturday and evening hours for working people who could not take time off during business hours.
Academic text (1998) -
I think we do have a problem that working people are forced to use food stamps.
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The Japan Program also offers courses in the evenings for working people and college students.
Academic text (1990) -
But what about the rest of us poor working people who can't do that?
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Each year more than a million working people in the UK experience a work-related illness.
Academic text (2014) -
Every year, more than a million working people in the UK experience a work-related illness.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person employed to do physical or routine jobs
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1.0
A person who does hard physical work without special skills, often on building sites
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3.0
A person who does hard work using their hands
A person who does physical work with their hands
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'working person' is compositionally built from 'working' (engaged in paid work) + 'person' (a human individual), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer it means someone who works. Any narrower sociological nuance (e.g. contrasted with managers/professionals) is secondary and not required for basic comprehension; the construction is cross-linguistically straightforward.
Etymology
Working person comes from a simple image: working (doing paid work with hands or tools) and person (someone who does that work). That's why it means 'a person who has a job doing manual or factory work' today.