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    Meaning of people in English
                                                        
                                        
        
                                        
                                
                
                                
                    
                
     
    people
    noun [ plural ]
     
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    /ˈpiː.pəl/     us                    
                
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    /ˈpiː.pəl/
                                                            
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
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    men, women, and children: 
     
    Many people never do any exercise.
     We've invited 30 people to our party.
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    used to refer to everyone, or informally to the group that you are speaking to: 
     
    People will think you've gone mad.
     People like to be made to feel important.
     Now that we've discussed our problems, are people happy with the decisions we've made?
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    men and women who are involved in a particular type of work: 
     
    We'll have to get the people at the city council to look at these plans.
     Most of her friends are media people.
     
     the people
                            
                                                                                        
                    
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    the large number of ordinary men and women who do not have positions of power in society: 
     
    She claims to be the voice of the people.
     The president has lost the support of the people.
     the people's Princess
     
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    the people someone is related to: 
     
    Her people come from Scotland originally.
     
                        
                                        
                                        
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    Grammar
                    
    Man, mankind or people?
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    Person, persons or people?
    We use person in the singular to refer to any human being: …                
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    man/woman of the people
                    
    of all people
                    
        
                                        
                                
                
                                
                    
                
    people
    noun [ C ]
     
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    all the men, women, and children who live in a particular country, or who have the same culture or language: 
     
    The French are known as a food-loving people.
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    a society: 
     
    Customs similar to this one are found among many peoples of the world.
     
                     
                                    
                        
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                                Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation                        
                            
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    Man, mankind or people?
     …                
                    
    Person, persons or people?
    We use person in the singular to refer to any human being: …                
                                                      (Definition of people from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)                                     
                    
    people | American Dictionary
                                
     
    people
    plural noun
     
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    people plural noun             (PERSONS)      
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    men, women, and children generally; pl ofperson: 
     
    There were a lot of people there.
     Some people were hurt.
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    People can refer to a particular group mentioned: 
     
    young/old people
     poor/rich people
     Those people look as if they’re lost.
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    When you say the people, you mean the large number of ordinary men and women who do not have positions of power: 
     
    The president wanted to take his message directly to the people.
     
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    people
    noun [ C ]
     
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    people noun [C]             (NATION)      
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    a culture or nation: 
     
    It is a custom shared by many Native American peoples.
     
            
     
                    
        
                                        
                                
                
                                
                    
                
    people
    verb [ T ]
     
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    people verb [T]             (PERSONS)      
     
                            
                                                                                        
                    
      
    If a place is peopled by a particular type of people, they have moved there or live there: 
     
    Honolulu is peopled by native Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, white Americans, and others.
     
                                                                                          
                                                    
                                       
                                                      (Definition of people from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)                                     
                    
    people | Business English
                                
     
    people
    noun [ plural ]
     
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    the people who work for a particular organization or person: 
     
    Firms need to keep investing both in infrastructure and their people.
     Your people can talk to my people about percentages.
     
                  
                                                      (Definition of people from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)                                     
            
                
                    
        
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                                                                                                This is not to say, it must be noted, that interference with people's disvaluable goals is necessarily permitted.                                                                
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                                                                                                Sounds, visual images, and faces remind the players of people or events of the past.                                                                
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                                                                                                                Only quick action would transfer people from relief to work as the president wanted.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                What sort of disputes did ordinary people bring to court?                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Even ordinary people are beginning to regard them as robots.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                I chose it because it is recent, brief and relevant to ordinary people.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                This is surprising, given that questions of revenue generation affect ordinary people in basic and sometimes very serious ways.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Readers are teachers or teachers in training, high school or normal school students, potential lawyers, businessmen, or "ordinary" people.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Having become a mass profession, science was no longer suspected of becoming elitist and separated from the life and concerns of ordinary people.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                He is also one of the world's most recognised, and recognisable, physically challenged people.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Others are reputed physically to capture people and to lock them up in secret places until they can hand them over to their white masters.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Most extraordinarily, there appears to be no research on what mentally or physically disabled people themselves prefer as respite care.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Thus, it is possible that the individuals discussed in this article formed single-person households for the purposes of taxation, but physically lived with other people.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                People from this region have produced a relatively small number of music technology-related publications.                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                                Any categorisation of chronological age obscures the physiological, psychological and social diversity of older people.                                                                                                    
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