单词 | lower-class |
释义 | lower-class (once / 40757 pages) adj WORD FAMILY lower-class USAGE EXAMPLESWhen it was of a face, though, lower-class people did better than upper-class ones. Economist(Oct 11, 2016) “Slavery was always about exploiting the labor of lower-class people in this country.” The New Yorker(Oct 03, 2016) “They were focused on lower-class white — suburban, in some cases — voters.” New York Times(Aug 30, 2016) adj occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society Syn|Ant low-class non-U not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use proletarianbelonging to or characteristic of the proletariat blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-classof those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers upper-lower-classoccupying the upper part of the lower class lowbornof humble birth or origins middle-class occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy upper-classoccupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society bourgeoisbelonging to the middle class bourgeois, conservative, materialisticconforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class lower-middle-classoccupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society upper-middle-classoccupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society qualityof high social status propertied, property-owningowning land or securities as a principal source of revenue u(chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use tweedy(of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy wellbornof good or upper-class lineage |
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