those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
the social or economic class composed of these workers.
Origin of working class
First recorded in 1805–15
OTHER WORDS FROM working class
working-class,adjective
Words nearby working class
working, working asset, working bee, working capital, working-capital fund, working class, working day, working dog, working drawing, Working Families Tax Credit, working fluid
It depends on your angle, to be honest, Carlos, I think that I grew up a very working class kid in Rhode Island.
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But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.
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You mix up English working-class gruffness with African-American soul from the Deep South.
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Iowa told a similar story, where working-class voters gave Republican Joni Ernst a 15 percent edge.
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Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished.
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Five feet two inches tall, Cecilia Benattar came from a working-class background in Manchester, England.
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Besides, I have not yet described the food of any but the working-class.
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This question had agitated a considerable part of the working-class for many years.
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I'm beginning to see some reason for the hostility which the working-class has for the 'intellectuals.'
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Mr. John Burns may be denounced as a renegade by Socialist critics, but a working-class electorate returns him to Parliament.
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It is a terrible story of working-class life in Paris, a study of the ravages wrought by drink.
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British Dictionary definitions for working class
working class
noun
Also called: proletariatthe social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workersCompare lower class, middle class, upper class
adjectiveworking-class
of, relating to, or characteristic of the 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.