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  1. working classadjective

    Synonyms:
    blue-collar

  2. working classadjective

    Relating to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance or other qualities.

    Synonyms:
    blue-collar

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  1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatadjective

    a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

    Antonyms:
    white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

    Synonyms:
    labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

  2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

    of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

    "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

    Antonyms:
    white-collar, middle-class, upper-class

    Synonyms:
    blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

  3. wage-earning, working-classadjective

    working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

    "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

    Antonyms:
    white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

    Synonyms:
    blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

How to use working class in a sentence?

  1. David Carroll:

    What the referendum did was gave permission to allow conversations to take place in places where it hadn't happened before: working class areas, rural areas. It allowed LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues to come out of the closet.

  2. Maxim Behar:

    PR is not an elitist industry. Rather, it is an industry for the people it is supposed to reach. If it needs to reach a working class demographic, then PR experts would have to speak their language and know how to speak to them in the most effective manner.

  3. Wang Jiangsong:

    The party has to think twice before it suppresses the labor movement because it still claims to be a party for the working class.

  4. Pauline Jones:

    I'm hoping he (Nigel Farage) doesn't come to me because it's lies, they're just feeding the 'simple people', the working class people, lies, that it's going to be better.

  5. Heather Kugelmass:

    It is possible that working-class therapy seekers would receive more positive responses from social workers, who may be more willing to work with disadvantaged populations, or from group practices, where there could be more social pressure to be less discriminatory when selecting clientele.

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