单词	underclass
释义	underclassun‧der‧class /ˈʌndəklɑːs $ -dərklæs/ noun [singular] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES an urban underclass The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS From this perspective, the rioters are not a unique group but rather are comparable to others in the urban underclass. People are worried about crime, about the tremors of the underclass. Such exclusion from citizenship is again the mark of the underclass. The underclass in Dahrendorf's account is not simply the product of unemployment. The definition of underclass has been disputed over the past two decades. The work of Tennyson coexisted with the devastation of an urban underclass described by Dickens. This does not mean that the younger members of the underclass pose no threat to public order. Thesaurus THESAURUS► class a group of students or schoolchildren who are taught together: · There are twenty kids in the class.· She gets along well with the other children in her class.· I’m going out with some friends from my dance class.· 'I graduated in 1999.' 'What class were you in?' ► background the type of home and family you come from, and its social class: · The school takes kids from all sorts of backgrounds.· We come from the same town and share a similar background.working-class/middle-class etc background: · The organization helps children from working-class backgrounds to go to university. ► middle-class belonging to the class of people who are usually well educated, fairly rich, and who work in jobs which they have trained to do. For example, doctors, lawyers, and managers are middle-class: · The newspaper’s readers are mostly middle class.· They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town. ► white-collar someone who works in an office, not a factory, mine etc: white-collar worker/job/employee: · The economic recession has put many white-collar workers in danger of losing their jobs. ► working-class belonging to the class of people who do not have much money or power, and who have jobs where they do physical work. For example, factory workers, builders, and drivers are working-class: · Most of the people who live round here are working class.· I come from a working-class family – I’m the first one to graduate from college. ► blue-collar someone who does physical work, for example in a factory or a mine, and does not work in an office: blue-collar worker/job/employee: · His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers. ► upper-class belonging to the class of people who originally had most of the money and power, especially families that own a lot of land: · Most senior politicians in the UK are from upper-class families.· He spoke with an upper-class accent. ► underclass the lowest social class, who are very poor and may not have jobs, homes etc: · The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society. Longman Language Activatorthe lowest class► working-class belonging to the class of people who do not have much money or power, and who have jobs where they do physical work. For example, factory workers, builders, and drivers are working-class: · Most of the people who live round here are working class.· I come from a working-class family - I'm the first one to graduate from college. ► lower-class an impolite word meaning belonging to the class that has less money, power, and education than anyone else: · It has been shown that children of lower-class parents are less likely to do well at school.· My mother's parents thought my father was terribly lower-class. ► the masses all the ordinary people in society who do not have power or influence, especially when they are thought of as not being very educated: · Television has brought cheap entertainment to the masses.· Lenin's position depended on the support of the masses. ► blue-collar : blue-collar worker/job/employee someone who does physical work, for example in a factory or a mine, and does not work in an office: · His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers. ► humble : of (a) humble background/family/origins etc from a low social class and without much money, but often with a lot of determination to work hard and succeed: · The school had originally provided a good education for children of humble backgrounds.· Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were all men of humble origins and no inherited wealth. ► underclass the lowest social class, who are very poor and may not have jobs, homes etc: · The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society. WORD SETS► Sociology abdicate, verbaffirmative action, nounage discrimination, nounageism, nounalienation, nounalmshouse, nounbackground, nounbeatnik, nounbeggar, nounbetterment, nounbirthrate, nounbohemian, adjectivebondage, nouncarer, nouncaretaker, nouncase work, nouncaste, nouncity planning, nouncommoner, nounconditioning, nounconsumer society, nounculture, noundisease, noundosser, noundoss house, noundown-and-out, noundownwardly mobile, adjectiveeuthanasia, nounformative, adjectivegenteel, adjectivegentlefolk, noungentleman, noungentlewoman, noungentry, noungeriatric, adjectivegerontology, noungrey, adjectivehermit, nounhierarchy, nounhippie, nounHonourable, adjectiveindependence, nounindustrialism, nouninequality, nouninfrastructure, nouninner city, nouninstitution, nouninstitutionalize, verbintegrate, verbliteracy, nounlower class, nounlow life, nounmatrix, nounmeritocracy, nounmobile, adjectivemores, nounmortality, nounNew Age traveller, nounorder, nounoutreach, nounpatriarchy, nounpecking order, nounpeer pressure, nounpetty bourgeois, adjectiveplebeian, nounpolitics, nounprogress, nounrank, nounreaction, nounrear, verbreceive, verbredneck, nounrevolution, nounsecularism, nounservice, nounsexual, adjectivesister, nounslave, nounslavery, nounsnowbird, nounsocial, adjectivesocial, nounsocialization, nounsocial science, nounsocial studies, nounsocial work, nounsocial worker, nounsociety, nounsocio-, prefixsocioeconomic, adjectivesoup kitchen, nounstratified, adjectivestratum, nounstreet people, nounsubgroup, nounsuburbanite, nounsuburbia, nounsupport group, nountownie, nountown meeting, nountown planning, nountownspeople, nountramp, noununattached, adjectiveuncle, noununconventional, adjectiveunderclass, nounupwardly mobile, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworking class, noun the lowest social class, consisting of people who are very poor and who are not likely to be able to improve their situation:  an urban underclass, who have limited access to health care → social exclusion
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