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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
classless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a classless society (=one in which people are not divided into different social classes)
▪ the Prime Minister’s vision of a classless society
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
society
▪ This can hardly be compatible with the Prime Minister's stated aim of a classless society - quite the opposite in fact.
▪ Coming from a man who claims to be in favour of the classless society, is that not hypocrisy?
▪ In the classless society, everyone will work for the good of all, not to gain private value.
▪ Neither Hogben nor Haldane had any objection to a biologically based eugenics programme enforced by the state in a classless society.
▪ The classless society is clearly on its way.
▪ Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And all this classless business he tries to put across.
▪ Her school was going to be right with it, modem, classless, with no absurd delusions about exclusivity.
▪ In the classless society, everyone will work for the good of all, not to gain private value.
▪ Now, in our classless society, it has been well and truly democratised.
▪ This is not to say that society was classless.
▪ We were classless, building up a mutual affection with those who watched us.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
classless

1874 in the social sense (1863 in reference to class generally), from class (n.) in the "social order" sense + -less. As "lacking the sophistication of high class," by 1979. Related: Classlessly; classlessness.

Wiktionary
classless

a. 1 Not divided into societal or economic groups. 2 without class or classes.

WordNet
classless

adj. favoring social equality; "a classless society" [syn: egalitarian]

Usage examples of "classless".

It will have nationalized industry, scaled down incomes, set up a classless educational system.

Megan and Hope were feted at the head table with the high-ranking dignitaries of the supposedly classless Saturn society, while Spirit, Thorley, and Hopie had a table with the ranking wives.

You know that we are theoretically a classless society, unlike you of the decadent capitalistic planets.

Traditionally, this meant a lengthy probationary period as a classless hanger-on.

I believe we are passing into a classless period, and what we call proletarian literature is one of the signs of the change.

It was said in the perfectly modulated tones and classless accents of a BBC announcer or a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Twelve floors high in the Marble Hill Houses, Broadway and 228th Street, formerly a middle-income municipal housing project, now a catchall for classless and deracinated urban detritus.