leisure class

1. The rich, so called because they can afford not to work. The term was made current by the economist Thorstein Veblen in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class .

Example Sentences

The Rev. Jesse Jackson dubbed it Democrats for the Leisure Class.

From The Daily Beast

These are just playtime politics, luxuries for the leisure class.

From The Daily Beast

I know that there is use telling leisure class ladies what exercise at the wash-tub would do for their abdomens and backs.

From Project Gutenberg

I am called in by these fat, over-fed rich people in their leisure class hotels, and what am I to say to them?

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Because the leisure class members of their sex have been kept in harems and used as the playthings of men.

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You will find it wherever there are leisure class hotels, or colleges, or other gatherings of ruling class young males.

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Neither the class distinctions nor the distinctions between leisure-class occupations are so minute and intricate.

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Related Words

• affluent
• upscale
• wealthy
• well-heeled
• well-off
• well-to-do