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creative class

creative class noun: a proposed socioeconomic class made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and various types of artists.

Noun

creative class (plural creative classes)

  1. A proposed socioeconomic class made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and various types of artists.
    • The modern creative class, beleaguered enough, barraged by two decades of digital technology that has radically cheapened music, television and cinema, is ready for combat, as the successful writers’ and actors’ strikes demonstrated earlier in the year.2023 December 28, Ross Barkan, “The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of creative class

pluralcreative classes

Origin of creative class

Coined by American urban studies theorist Richard Florida in The Rise of the Creative Class (2002).

Questions about creative class

What does creative class mean?
Creative class means a proposed socioeconomic class made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and various types of artists.
What part of speech is creative class?
Creative class is a noun.
What is the plural of creative class?
The plural of creative class is creative classes.

Words near creative class in the dictionary

  1. creations
  2. creative
  3. creative accounting
  4. creative block
  5. creative blocks
  6. creative class
  7. creative classes
  8. Creative Commons
  9. creative destruction
  10. creative differences
  11. creative energy

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