Poorer social grouping

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Lower class may refer to: American lower class , those at or near the lower end of the socio-economic hierarchy in the United States Proletariat , the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose main material value is their labour-power Underclass ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A class of people in a society characterized by low incomes, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Consequently, we propose to lower class sizes to 25 in the first three grades. ▪ His wife died from being too lower class . ▪ In college he loved a young girl of a lower class and ruined her; she died a suicide. ▪ Then you got ...

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n. the social class lowest in the social hierarchy