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old peopleplural noun1People who are elderly: a scheme which ensures that all old people have central heating and insulation...- The children steal whenever they can, but the old people are more accepting of their circumstances.
- There were even MPs who were going around the country giving speeches to old people on how you can avoid paying this extra tax.
- Christine's day job, though she has only one known customer, is Elder Cab, a one-person driving service for old people.
1.1Australian Aborigines who live in the traditional manner, regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge: their father was the last of the original old people from the North West Cape area...- Gupapuyngu, the language I have learnt, is spoken only by the old people.
- The old people say, "White people have got no right to come and tell us that tobacco is bad."
- When the old people, who are the depositories of these customs, die, the knowledge even of these customs will die also.
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