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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lower class
noun
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▪ 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 the beatnik, maybe a lower class of person.
▪ Well, maybe, they could be, for once, treated just like their lower class brothers the football fans.
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lower class

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.

WordNet
lower class

n. the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

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Lower class

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, the segment of the population that occupies the lowest possible position in a class hierarchy, below the working class
  • Working class, those employed in blue collar and manual jobs