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Underclass

noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The poorest class of people in a given society.

    "The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist."

  2. 2
    the social class lowest in the social hierarchy wordnet

Etymology

From under- + class.

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