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underclass

underclass noun: the poorest class of people in a given society.

Noun

underclass (plural underclasses)

  1. The poorest class of people in a given society.
    • The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)
    • Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine

underclass meaning in Urdu

underclass in Urdu

نچلا طبقہ

Examples of underclass in a sentence

  • So there are all these tweets that I saw joking about the permanent underclass.
  • Also, I bleed for the welfare of our children among our growing population of feral underclass.
  • To a number of underclass youths, love is only another hustle.

All 13 example sentences with underclass

Forms of underclass

pluralunderclasses

Plural of underclass: underclasses

Origin of underclass

From under- + class.

Words formed from underclass

Questions about underclass

What does underclass mean?
Underclass means the poorest class of people in a given society.
What is underclass in Urdu?
Underclass in Urdu is نچلا طبقہ. See Underclass meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is underclass?
Underclass is a noun.
What is the plural of underclass?
The plural of underclass is underclasses.

Words near underclass in the dictionary

  1. underclad
  2. underclaim
  3. underclaimed
  4. underclaiming
  5. underclaims
  6. underclass
  7. underclasser
  8. underclassers
  9. underclasses
  10. underclassify
  11. underclassman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underclass (page history and authors); underclass (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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