working person

Questions about working person

What does working person mean?

working person means "an employee who performs manual or industrial labor".

What is another word for working person?

Close synonyms include workman, workingman, working man. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is working person a common word?

working person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.