Dictionary entry
Underclass
Pronunciation: /ˈʌndəklɑːs/
Pronunciation
/ˈʌndəklɑːs/
Myanmar Meaning
ဆင်းရဲသား။ အောက်အလွှာ။
Definition
underclass / 'ʌndǝklɑ:s / n ဆင္းရဲသား။ ေအာက္အလႊာ။
Examples
- ‘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.’