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Working Class

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Noun

1. labor, labour, proletariat, working class

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

Example Sentences:
'there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field'

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

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Working Class

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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.

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