Phrase Hound found 50 phrases and 147 compound words that contain persons. The most common are listed below. Open persons in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 50
- displaced personsplural of displaced person: A refugee, especially of war or of forced migration.
- Disabled persons
- persons of interestplural of person of interest: Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been …
- missing personsplural of missing person: A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.
- natural personsplural of natural person: A human being, as opposed to an organization.
- Three persons
- legal personsplural of legal person: An aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.
- internally displaced personsplural of internally displaced person: Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.
- people personsplural of people person: One who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.
- persons unknownplural of person unknown: An individual yet to identified.
- sales personsplural of sales person: A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
- certain personsplural of certain person: [in relation to a specific action] a person who is a member of a specific class for whom the action constitutes a crime; typically the action is possession of a weapon and the class is convicted felons
- reasonable personsplural of reasonable person: 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 …
- very important personsplural of very important person: A person who is accorded special privileges due to their status or importance.
- advance personsplural of advance person: Someone who travels to a destination in order to arrange accommodation, meetings, security, etc. for one or more celebrities, politicians, business leaders, or other public figures who will arrive subsequently.
- computer personsplural of computer person: Someone knowledgeable and skillful in using computers.
- favorite personsplural of favorite person: A person on whom someone with borderline personality disorder is intensely emotionally dependent.
- little personsplural of little person: A person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.
- persons upthird-person singular simple present indicative of person up: To show courage, strength, toughness, or responsibility; a gender-neutral alternative to "man up".
- physical personsplural of physical person: A human being, as opposed to an organization.
- point personsplural of point person: The person in the most prominent position on something, such as a spokesperson or manager.
- second personsplural of second person: The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural …
- third personsplural of third person: The words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.
- highly sensitive personsplural of highly sensitive person: A person with a particularly high measure of sensory processing sensitivity.
- cis personsplural of cis person: A cisgender/cissexual person: one whose gender matches his or her assigned sex.
Compound words 147
- chairpersonsplural of chairperson: A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
- spokespersonsplural of spokesperson: A person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people.
- salespersonsplural of salesperson: A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
- laypersonsplural of layperson: A person who is not a cleric.
- tradespersonsplural of tradesperson; tradespeople.
- mediapersonsplural of mediaperson: A member of the media.
- businesspersonsplural of businessperson: A person in business, or one who works at a commercial institution.
- newspersonsplural of newsperson: A person involved in the gathering or delivery of news: a reporter or journalist.
- sportspersonsplural of sportsperson: Someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.
- bellpersonsplural of bellperson: A bellhop.