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Definition of underclass in English: underclassnounˈʌndəklɑːsˈəndərˌklæs The lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed. they are an underclass who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture Example sentencesExamples - The two sections of society most damaged by the growing paralysis in social mobility are the lower middle class and the underclass at the bottom of the heap.
- In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.
- This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.
- No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses.
- Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
- Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.
- There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.
- The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.
- New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.
- This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.
- Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
- Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.
- Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass, working class.
- There are two underclasses and both are causing problems in the city.
- It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.
- In previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass.
- In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.
- They did not approach life from the perspective of the underclasses.
- Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.
- Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?
Synonyms rabble, scum, vermin, dregs, good-for-nothings, lowest of the low, the dregs, untouchables, the hoi polloi
Definition of underclass in US English: underclassnounˈəndərˌklasˈəndərˌklæs The lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed. they are an underclass who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture Example sentencesExamples - Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.
- Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
- Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.
- In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.
- Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?
- There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.
- It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.
- This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.
- New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.
- In previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass.
- They did not approach life from the perspective of the underclasses.
- Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.
- The two sections of society most damaged by the growing paralysis in social mobility are the lower middle class and the underclass at the bottom of the heap.
- In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.
- Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
- This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.
- There are two underclasses and both are causing problems in the city.
- The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.
- No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses.
- Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass, working class.
Synonyms rabble, scum, vermin, dregs, good-for-nothings, lowest of the low, the dregs, untouchables, the hoi polloi
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