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WORKING-CLASS

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborersplay

Example:

party of the propertyless proletariat

Synonyms:

blue-collar; propertyless; wage-earning; working-class

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

low-class; lower-class (occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salariesplay

Example:

working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor

Synonyms:

wage-earning; working-class

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

blue-collar (of or designating manual industrial work or workers)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He was appalled at the problem confronting him, weighted down by the incubus of his working-class station.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And he was aware that Ruth looked, too, with quick eyes that were timid and mild as a dove's, but which saw, in a look that was a flutter on and past, the working-class girl in her cheap finery and under the strange hat that all working-class girls were wearing just then.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had been to the working-class picnics too often in his earlier life not to know what they were like, and as he entered the park he experienced a recrudescence of all the old sensations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)




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