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Definition
Practitioners, employees, or workers in a particular industry or trade.
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How it's used
This term is formal and typically appears in professional reports, government documents, or news headlines. It functions as a collective noun to describe people working within a specific sector, rather than referring to an individual employee in a casual, everyday conversation. In casual speech, people would simply use 打工仔 or 員工 instead.
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This company has hired many employees from the tourism industry.
Are you an employee in the catering industry?
Related words
Common phrases
catering industry employees
tourism industry employees
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Grammar guides
- In 30 secondsThe whole language at a glance. No tenses, no plurals, six tones, sentence particles. Read this before you dive into any specific topic.
- ParticlesSentence particles add tone, emotion, and nuance. Learn the most common particles in Cantonese and how to use them.
- Possession (嘅)How to say my, your, and his, and how to link a describing word to a noun, all with the little word 嘅 (ge3).
