Working Class Definition

noun
The socioeconomic class consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled laborers and their families.
American Heritage
Workers as a class; esp., industrial or manual workers as a class; proletariat.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Relating to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance or other qualities.
Wiktionary
Of or pertaining to the working class.
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Other Word Forms of Working Class

Noun

Singular:
working class
Plural:
working-classes

Working Class Sentence Examples

  • Carl was born into a working-class Jewish family in New York in 1934.

  • The film, which stars Ali MacGraw as Jennifer and Ryan O'Neal as Oliver, tells the story of a rich boy who falls in love with a working-class girl.

  • Cayce had an eighth-grade education, something that was not unusual for a young man from a working-class family at the time.

  • It was brought to the country by the French and became so popular, even a working-class Japanese woman invests in fine lingerie.

  • Wages vary greatly in different parts of Italy, according to the cost of the necessaries of life, the degree of development of working-class needs and the state of working-class organization, which in some places has succeeded in increasing the rates of pay.

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