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working-class
 
Adjective working-class has 2 senses
  1. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
    Antonym: middle-class (indirect, via upper-class, lower-class)
    Antonym: upper-class (indirect, via lower-class, middle-class)
  2. wage-earning, working-class - working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
    Antonym: white-collar (indirect, via blue-collar)
Noun working-class has 1 sense
  1. labor, labour, working class, proletariat - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
    --1 is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class
    --1 has members: proletarian, prole, worker
    --1 has particulars: labor force, labor pool
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