working class
noun
those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
the social or economic class composed of these workers.
Words nearby working class
workhouse, working, working asset, working bee, working capital, working class, working day, working dog, working drawing, working families tax credit, working fluid
Origin of working class
First recorded in 1805–15
OTHER WORDS FROM working class
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British Dictionary definitions for working class
working class
noun
Also called: proletariat the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workersCompare lower class, middle class, upper class
adjective working-class
of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class
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Cultural definitions for working class
working class
In the United States, the population of blue-collar workers, particularly skilled and semiskilled laborers, who differ in values, but not necessarily in income, from the middle class. In Marxism, this term refers to propertyless factory workers.
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