hard-working citizens

collocation in English

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hard-working
adjective
uk
/ˌhɑːdˈwɜː.kɪŋ/us
/ˌhɑːrdˈwɝː.kɪŋ/
always doing a lot ...
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citizen
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us
/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
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(Definition ofhard-workingandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They represented the full range of health care workers and were all decent and hard-working citizens.
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We are asking for justice for ordinary, decent hard-working citizens.
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To do that to people who may have done nothing wrong is a criminal waste of potentially law-abiding and hard-working citizens.
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They are not "wasters"; they are decent, respectable, hard-working citizens, who are prepared to pay an economic rent for a decent house.
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They would rather see these hard-working citizens on the dole.
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Britain's honest and hard-working citizens will not be fooled.
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It happens to solid, hard-working citizens.
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Generally speaking, they are good, hard-working citizens.
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I will give only one example because it is the most striking and because it happens to affect a large number of conscientious and hard-working citizens in my own constituency.
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The neighborhood was overwhelmingly composed of hard-working citizens.
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They are also regarded as respectable, hard-working citizens.
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