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Meanings of lower class in English

A class of people in a society characterized by low income, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.

Synonyms
Examples for "underclass"
Examples for "underclass"
1
Another wave of executives was colonizing the riverbank, creating a new underclass.
The water room
2
I love fake revolts of the underclass: I'm a veteran of them.
The Guardian
3
The result - a psychedelic voice of the underclass named Chicha.
Radio NZ
4
Some policymakers assume that the underclass results solely from racial and economic discrimination.
The new yorker
5
The west London underclass wasn't organised and self-aware like in the East End.
The Guardian
1
If any sportsman's clay was shaped by the lumpenproletariat mentality of our inner cities, the most depraved in the civilised world, it is Rooney.
The Guardian
Usage of lower class in English
1
He was the second of seven children in a lower class family.
No More Mr. Nice Guy!
2
I felt relieved, in spite of the size of the lower class.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
3
Barrera came from a middle class background, Morales from a lower class.
The Guardian
4
This middle class condemnation swept the lower class away in its train.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
5
The remaining part of the lower class consisted of impoverished Chinese peasants.
A History of China
6
The middle and upper classes are equally guilty with the lower class.
Thrift
7
The lower class of Assyrian women are not represented upon the sculptures.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: ...
8
The coolie and lower class are an ignorant, repulsive and ill-mannered people.
My Native Land / The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, a...
9
The lower class is those who live by what they earn only.
The Conflict
10
At bottom we've got a lower class to deal with, you know.
The Imperialist
11
Every character in it is of the lower class in England.
Modern Fiction
12
Tells about his beginnings in lower class New Rochelle, New York.
The new yorker
13
Now, a lower class of urbanites occupied the tower in question.
Existence
14
Also, that's because I choose to follow the lower class set of brothers.
Wired
15
But in this case the family continues to belong to the lower class.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
16
The public is recruited from the upper, the middle, and the lower class.
Yet Again
This collocation consists of:
Lower class through the time
Lower class across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common