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lower class

also lower-class
Word forms: plural lower classes
countable noun [with singular or plural verb, usually plural]
Some people use the lower class or the lower classes to refer to the division of society that they consider to have the lowest social status.
Education now offers the lower classes access to job opportunities.
Lower class is also an adjective.
...lower-class families.
Horse-racing was once considered vulgar and lower class in Japan.

lower class in British English

noun
1. 
the social stratum having the lowest position in the social hierarchy
Compare middle class, upper class, working class
adjective lower-class
2. 
of or relating to the lower class
3. 
inferior or vulgar

lower-class in British English

(ˌləʊəˈklɑːs)
adjective
1. 
of or relating to the lower class
lower-class families
his lower-class origins
2. 
inferior or vulgar
Horse-racing was once considered vulgar and lower class in Japan.

lower class in American English

the social class below the middle class; working class, or proletariat

Examples of 'lower class' in a sentence
lower class

There was a lower class of individual out here in those days... "Mrs. Creznik's voice had grown tremulous.
Joyce Carol Oates MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE (2001)
Middle- and lower-class women travelling overseas with and for their menfolk could be less diffident.
Linda Colley The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007)
It tends to be lower-class people drinking in these places and they were being punished.
The Sun (2010)
And it provided lower-class women with dignified employment and charitable assistance.
Christianity Today (2000)
The low-income groups in the cities had outgrown both their subsistence standards and their distinct lower-class habits.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
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