working-class
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- adjective
- /ˈwɜrkɪŋ klæs/
:
de clase trabajadora
- Not a fashionable area, it was a working-class neighborhood with narrow streets, mainly empty.
- working-class women
- working-class families
- working-class neighborhoods
As if the people in this Trump working class district didn't really matter.
- As if the people in this Trump working class district didn't really matter.
- It's affecting working class women more than anyone else.
- She grew up in a working class family.
- And they call working class people racist when they object to this.
- On top of that, I'm then black and I'm working class.
- I am not surprised that a party that doesn't listen to working class voters got part, got voted against.
- That's what I was growing up in a council estate that was working class and very poor.
- So these bars show up so often in these working class neighborhoods of Pompeii.
Examples
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I'm talking about normal people, working-class, everyday people.
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They think the working class will never get rich.
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Most poor people and working class people focus on income.
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In general, the white working class, like all social groups, is more diverse than ever before.
Academic text (2008) -
Meanwhile, they are shifting wealth away from working class families to the top, top, top percent.
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I doubt I'll ever find a more decent working-class home than this.
Fiction book (2002) -
Marseille's a very, very hard, working-class city.
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Few policymakers have spent much time at colleges that serve a mostly working-class population.
Academic text (2011) -
She was a working-class girl marrying into wealth.
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This neighborhood is known for its strong sense of community among working-class families.
Synonyms
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Related to jobs that involve physical work, like factory or construction work
How Working-Class
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Working-class joins working (doing paid work) and class (a 'group' of people). So working-class means the 'group' of people who earn their living by manual or factory 'work', which is why we use it for people who work for 'wages'.