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workfolks

workfolks is the plural of workfolk.

Meaning of workfolk

Noun

workfolk (usually uncountable, plural workfolks)

  1. (usually) Collectively, people who perform manual labour.
    • Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her.1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Volume 2, page 118
    Synonyms:
    workforce

Questions about workfolks

What is workfolks the plural of?
Workfolks is the plural of workfolk.

Words near workfolks in the dictionary

  1. workfellow
  2. workfellows
  3. workflow
  4. workflows
  5. workfolk
  6. workfolks
  7. workforce
  8. workforces
  9. workfree
  10. workfront
  11. workfronts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: workfolks (page history and authors); workfolk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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