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working-class

working-class adjective: of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.

Adjective

working-class (comparative more working-class, superlative most working-class)

  1. Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.
    • There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9
    • Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78
    Synonyms:
    blue-collar

Examples of working-class in a sentence

  • It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27:
  • We're also witnessing the passing of something even more profound - a culture of working-class masculinity that has become an anachronism in the modern world.2009 May 20, Margaret Wente, “We are witnessing the passing of working-class masculinity”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the...
  • The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town.2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Synonyms of working-class

Forms of working-class

comparativemore working-class
superlativemost working-class

Words formed from working-class

Questions about working-class

What does working-class mean?
Working-class means of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.
How do you use working-class in a sentence?
It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.
What part of speech is working-class?
Working-class is an adjective.

Words near working-class in the dictionary

  1. working vocabularies
  2. working vocabulary
  3. working week
  4. working weeks
  5. working wonders
  6. working-class
  7. working-classize
  8. working-classized
  9. working-classizes
  10. working-classizing
  11. working-storage section

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