underclass
/ˈʌndəklɑːs/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʌndəklɑːs/
underclass
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un - der - class -> underclass
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
underclass / 'ʌndǝklɑ:s / n
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- ‘Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?’
- ‘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 previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass.’
- ‘Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.’
- ‘New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.’
- ‘Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass, working class.’
- ‘Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.’
- ‘It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.’
- ‘There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.’
- ‘In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘There are two underclasses and both are causing problems in the city.’
- ‘This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.’
- ‘The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.’
- ‘Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.’
- ‘No city has succeeded when it has two spatially segregated underclasses.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.’
- ‘Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.’
- ‘They did not approach life from the perspective of the underclasses.’
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