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单词 working-class
释义 ˈworking(-)ˈclass
Chiefly pl. ˈworking ˈclasses.
[working ppl. a., class n. 2.]
The grade or grades of society comprising those who are employed to work for wages in manual or industrial occupations.
1789J. Gray in G. Dempster Discourse containing a Summary of Proceedings of Soc. for extending Fisheries & improving Sea Coasts of Gt. Britain 50 More spacious plots of ground..may be allowed to the clergyman and schoolmaster, and to other persons superior to the working class.1795J. Aikin Descr. Country 30–40 Miles round Manchester 262 Houses for the working class are not procured without difficulty.1813R. Owen New View Soc. 5 The poor and working classes of Great Britain and Ireland have been found to exceed twelve millions of persons.1844H. Cockburn Jrnl. (1874) II. 83 What are termed the working-classes, as if the only workers were those who wrought with their hands.1875Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 36 §5 The accommodation of..as many persons of the working class as may be displaced.1890Act 53 & 54 Vict. c. 69 §18 The provisions of section eleven of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885,..shall have effect as if the expression ‘working classes’ included all classes of persons who earn their livelihood by wages or salaries.
b. attrib., as working-class family, working-class house, working-class vote.
1839J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. Apr. 497 The Working Men's Association..who represent the best and most enlightened aspect of working-class Radicalism.1849F. D. Maurice Let. 3 Mar. in J. F. Maurice Life F. D. Maurice (1884) I. xxv. 513 Thank you very much for entering so heartily into my working class meetings.1869W. T. Thornton On Labour iii. v. 316 Leading unionists, and working-class leaders.1884in A. Cawston Street Improv. London (1893) 105 Those working-class houses that you have bought up and repaired.1895Q. Rev. Oct. 558 The working-class vote.1913Times 14 May 5/5 The 3,000 working class families which form the population.
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