underclass
English
Etymology
From under- + class.
Noun
underclass (plural underclasses)
- The poorest class of people in a given society.
- 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
- The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.
- 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in The Atlantic:
- While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.
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Derived terms
- underclasser
- underclassman
- underclassness
- underclassperson
- underclasswoman
See also
- subculture