the socioeconomic class with incomes below subsistence level, including esp. the underprivileged
underclass
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underclass
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The lowest societal stratum, usually composed of the disadvantaged: “Divorced women and their children are becoming a new underclass” ( Barbara Fisher Williamson )
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