Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lower orders
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods.
▪ For the most part the lower orders depended on selling their labour.
▪ Gin was, after all, commercially produced and consumed only by the lower orders.
▪ He shows no urge to rub shoulders with the lower orders but, if anything, a tendency to keep his distance.
▪ Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders.
▪ The lower orders were denied the privilege of the back door and entered through the front.
▪ These lower orders also had racial dimensions.
▪ We must have the freedom to make our mills successful, so that we can offer the lower orders employment.