People in paid employment, especially in manual or industrial labour.
〈英〉劳动者们，工人群众
Example sentencesExamples
It may have been a summons to the workpeople of some manufactory, it may have been like all the other experiences of that strange night.
We're a fledgling club, we rely on Eltham College students, local workpeople, as most clubs would do, but we're a young club, we're not that financial, and we rely on players paying their fees for playing for the year.
Each shirt is made by skilled workpeople, from sound materials, and is guaranteed to wear well and resist the washtub.
Scores of their workpeople have been employed at the mills all their lives, and the intimate and friendly relations between them and their masters were of a character practically unknown under modern business Conditions.
It was fortunate that no workpeople were in the room below, or they would have been crushed to death.