working-class

working-class

See also: working class

English

Adjective

working-class (comparative more working-class, superlative most working-class)

1. Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance or other qualities.
   • 1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9:

     There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.

   • 1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78:

     Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.

   • 2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27:

     It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.

   • 2007, Studwell, Joe, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia‎, First American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, OCLC 636909772, page 55:

     But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.

Synonyms

• (relating to working class): blue-collar

Translations

relating to the working class

Finnish: työväenluokkainen (fi)

Anagrams

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