person of/with

person of/with
   someone having a particular characteristic
   Used in much the same way as PEOPLE OF/WITH. Thus a person of colour is a black person, and a person with AIDS becomes a PWA, an abbreviation not usually accorded to the victims of other diseases. To avoid mentioning sex, the bedroom, or unmarried copulation we have to turn to an American circumlocutory bureaucrat:
    At the other end of the scale, the US Census Bureau came up with 'Person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters'. As an introduction it seemed a mite unromantic. (Whicker, 1982 — he was pondering how to describe his mistress)

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