Working class
Working class is a term used in academic
sociology and in ordinary conversation.In common with other terms relevant to
social class, it is defined and used in many different ways, depending on context and speaker. The term incorporates references to education, to occupation, to culture, and to income. When used non-academically, it typically refers to a section of society dependent on physical
labor, especially when remunerated with an hourly
wage.
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working class
Noun
1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
(synonym) labor, labour, proletariat
(hypernym) class, social class, socio-economic class
(hyponym) labor force, labor pool
(member-meronym) proletarian, prole, worker
working-class
Adjective
1. of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
(synonym) propertyless, wage-earning, blue-collar
(similar) lower-class, low-class
2. working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
(synonym) wage-earning
(similar) blue-collar
working class
Synonyms and related words:
bourgeois, bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, middle-class, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletarian, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working people
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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