Russian
люмпен-пролетариат Portuguese
lumpemproletariado Spanish
lumpenproletariado Catalan
lumpenproletariat 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.
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Examples for "underclass"
Examples for "underclass"
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Another wave of executives was colonizing the riverbank, creating a new underclass.
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I love fake revolts of the underclass: I'm a veteran of them.
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The result - a psychedelic voice of the underclass named Chicha.
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Some policymakers assume that the underclass results solely from racial and economic discrimination.
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The west London underclass wasn't organised and self-aware like in the East End.
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He was the second of seven children in a lower class family.
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I felt relieved, in spite of the size of the lower class.
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Barrera came from a middle class background, Morales from a lower class.
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This middle class condemnation swept the lower class away in its train.
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The remaining part of the lower class consisted of impoverished Chinese peasants.
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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.