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underclass

[ uhn-der-klas, -klahs ]

noun

  1. a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status.


underclass

/ 藞蕦苍诲蓹藢办濒蓱藧蝉 /

noun

  1. a class beneath the usual social scale consisting of the most disadvantaged people, such as the unemployed in inner cities
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Grammar Note

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of underclass1

First recorded in 1915鈥20; under- + class
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Example Sentences

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There are the 鈥渨inners鈥 in this increasingly stratified society who can move into formerly working-class, poor, and underclass communities and buy/rent property.

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The book explores his firsthand experience of the poverty and addiction of a rural underclass, while offering a glimpse into the Vances' relationship.

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I will secure and defend our borders 鈥 but I will also stop consigning many who are here to a permanent underclass.

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"It was an era when women were still the underclass in the working world," Natacha said.

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They鈥檝e created a new underclass of gambling addicts while largely failing to fulfill their advocates鈥 assurances that state-sponsored and regulated gambling would produce a new, risk-free revenue stream for state and local budgets.

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