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reasonable people

reasonable people is the plural of reasonable person.

Meaning of reasonable person

Noun

reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)

  1. A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable, person.

Questions about reasonable people

What is reasonable people the plural of?
Reasonable people is the plural of reasonable person.

Words near reasonable people in the dictionary

  1. reasonabilities
  2. reasonability
  3. reasonable
  4. reasonable doubt
  5. reasonable doubts
  6. reasonable people
  7. reasonable person
  8. reasonable persons
  9. reasonable time
  10. reasonable times
  11. reasonableness

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