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working classes

n. (working class English)

Usage examples of "working classes".

With the working classes, in particular, grumbling is so habitual that they don't know when they are grumbling.

I'd never been with troops before, and I'd never had any friends from the working classes, so I didn't know much about the kind of people who enlist in the Line Marines.

Still the working classes all over America can command not only all necessary comforts, but many luxuries.

She must not work for profit, or engage in any occupation that money can command, lest she invade the rights of the working classes, who live by their labor.

I came here because they talk about the lower classes, the working classes, and I thought, that sounds like my people.

But there was nowhere for the poor and the working classes to go, and even if there had been, how could ordinary people just pack up and leave?