Working-class

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.

    "There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers wordnet
  2. 2
    working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries wordnet

Synonyms

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blue-collarblue-collarbourgeoishardhandedplebeianproletarian

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"Tom grew up in a working-class family."

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