working class
noun
those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
working classes
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pluralof working class.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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May Day, which celebrates workers and the working classes, sees a major police deployment in Turkey every year, with a large area in the heart of Istanbul around Taksim Square sealed off.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
He concluded by saying that his legacy included reducing hunger, lowering unemployment, and the incomes of the working classes growing.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
So there was this pressure brought both internally. from the disaffected working classes, and externally.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2023
The working classes had thus, from being twenty millions behind the rich at the opening of the century, advanced twenty millions beyond the rich towards its close.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
