workfolk

variants or workfolks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for workfolk
Noun
  • Marcella’s parents were landowners whose tenant farmers paid a share of their earnings and brought them traditional tributes of chickens and rabbits when major holidays came around.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
  • The number of new tenant farmers gaining owner-like rights to land through this route in recent years is nominal.
    Tim Hanstad, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2016
Noun
  • Dior himself was a gentleman farmer, and his ornamental garden has been preserved.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Firn formulas, which contain between 85 percent and 99.9 percent natural ingredients, is dedicating 1 percent of its sales to a nonprofit helping farmers.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
  • Shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico, for instance, are thus direly connected to farmers in the Midwest.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Over the past 25 years, on-board astronauts have done yeoman’s work in the station’s six laboratory modules.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 June 2025
  • That line did yeoman’s work against Golden Knights star Jack Eichel.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 12 May 2025
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“Workfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workfolk. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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