underclass
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Noun
underclass (plural underclasses)
- The poorest class of people in a given society.
- 2011, Mark Lautman, “Chapter Nine: Realities of a Zero-Sum Labor Market”, in When the Boomers Bail: A Community Economic Survival Guide, Paperback Edition, Logan Square Press, Part Three: Catastrophic Full Employment, page 128:
- Get an education and some training and you'll get a good job. Don't and you'll stay in the underclass.
- 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- 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 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in Intelligencer[1], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 September 2026:
- Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.
- 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 March 2026:
- 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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