Persons vs Someone - What's the difference?
persons | someone |
; used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group. Contrast people.
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As nouns the difference between persons and someone
is that persons is ; used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group contrast people while someone is a partially specified but unnamed person.As a pronoun someone is
some person.persons
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(head) (p)Question 5: “Who is counted as unemployed?”
- Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.
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*Anagrams
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Usage notes
* Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation. *: Did anyone help with the clean-up effort? *: Yes, someone''' helped yesterday, but '''no one''' did today because '''everyone was too busy.Synonyms
* anybody, anyone, somebodyAbbreviations
Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation or so for someone.Noun
(en noun)- Do you need a gift for that special someone ?
- The someones under discussion were eventually arrested.