laypeople

[ ley-pee-puh l ]

/ ˈleɪˌpi pəl /

laymen and laywomen collectively.

Words nearby laypeople

layperson

[ ley-pur-suh n ]

/ ˈleɪˌpɜr sən /

a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.

a person who is not a member of a given profession, as law or medicine.

First recorded in 1970–75; lay(man) + -person

See -person.

Laypeople tend to regard two successive quarters of negative growth as a recession.

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While Nest says its products can easily be installed by laypeople, this layperson was easily stymied.

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Deen may have been known to most laypeople as a television chef and cookbook author.

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