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Definition of underclass in English: underclassnounˈʌndəklɑːsˈəndərˌklæs The lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed. 下层社会 they are an underclass who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture Example sentencesExamples - The two sections of society most damaged by the growing paralysis in social mobility are the lower middle class and the underclass at the bottom of the heap.
- In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.
- This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.
- No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses.
- Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
- Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.
- There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.
- The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.
- New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.
- This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.
- Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
- Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.
- Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass, working class.
- There are two underclasses and both are causing problems in the city.
- It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.
- In previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass.
- In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.
- They did not approach life from the perspective of the underclasses.
- Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.
- Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?
Synonyms rabble, scum, vermin, dregs, good-for-nothings, lowest of the low, the dregs, untouchables, the hoi polloi
Definition of underclass in US English: underclassnounˈəndərˌklasˈəndərˌklæs The lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed. 下层社会 they are an underclass who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture Example sentencesExamples - Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.
- Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
- Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.
- In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.
- Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?
- There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.
- It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.
- This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.
- New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.
- In previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass.
- They did not approach life from the perspective of the underclasses.
- Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.
- The two sections of society most damaged by the growing paralysis in social mobility are the lower middle class and the underclass at the bottom of the heap.
- In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.
- Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
- This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.
- There are two underclasses and both are causing problems in the city.
- The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.
- No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses.
- Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass, working class.
Synonyms rabble, scum, vermin, dregs, good-for-nothings, lowest of the low, the dregs, untouchables, the hoi polloi
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