1. Home
  2. Dictionary
  3. Working-class

Definition of Working-class in English :

Define Working-class in English

Working-class meaning in English

Meaning of Working-class in English

Pronunciation of Working-class in English

Working-class pronunciation in English

Pronounce Working-class in English

Working-class

see synonyms of working-class

Adjective

1. blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

Example Sentences:
'party of the propertyless proletariat'

2. wage-earning, working-class

working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

Example Sentences:
'working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Working-class

see synonyms of working-class
noun
1. Also called: proletariat
the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workers
Compare lower class, middle class, upper class
adjective working-class
2. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class
The group is mainly black, mainly working-class.
a self-educated man from a working-class background

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Working-class

see synonyms of working-class
workers as a class; esp., industrial or manual workers as a class; proletariat

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Working-class

see synonyms of working-class
n.
The socioeconomic class consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled laborers and their families.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

WORD OF THE DAY

utopia

FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS

Recent Searches