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noun
those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
the social or economic class composed of these workers.
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Origin of working class First recorded in 1805â15
OTHER WORDS FROM working class working-class, adjective
Words nearby working class working ,
working asset ,
working bee ,
working capital ,
working-capital fund ,
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working day ,
working dog ,
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Working Families Tax Credit ,
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How to use working class in a sentence Theyâre there to make our working class better off for what we have to go through being so isolated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
In 2017, he gave an interview about how Hollywood doesnât tell enough stories about the working class .
The new nation was strikingly free of the British upper-class fear that educating the working class would give it dangerous ideas â with the major exception of slave owners, who withheld schooling for that very reason.
It depends on your angle, to be honest, Carlos, I think that I grew up a very working class kid in Rhode Island.
I came in from a working class family and I thought of them more like my father, my uncle, who were drivers.
I was drawn to The Class for different reasonsâchiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnamâbody counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.
Our class has swelled to about a dozen persons now, and a good many others come and play to him once or twice and then go.
It has only been a rare and exceptional class hitherto that has gone on learning throughout life.
But we must not class in this unclean category Lord Spunyarn and his friend Haggard, who were both playing at the big table.
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British Dictionary definitions for working class
noun
Also called: proletariat the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workers Compare 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
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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