Working-class synonyms
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blue-collar workers
common laborer
common laborers
factory laborer
factory laborers
The common people, orig. those esp. of rural or nonurban areas, thought of as best representing the basic, direct political interests of the electorate
laboring class
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proles
Plural form of prole
The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.
The body of soldiers of an army, as distinguished from the officers
the other half
unskilled laborer
unskilled laborers
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wage-earners
Plural form of wage earner
workfolk
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
working people
working stiff
working stiffs
Plural form of workperson
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Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; - G.B.Shaw
Designating or of industrial workers, often, specif., the semiskilled or unskilled
A political party representing workers' interests, especially in Great Britain.
Labour is the British spelling of the world labor, which is defined as work.
suburban (related)
down-at-heel (related)
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second-homers (related)
proletarian (related)
bourgeoisie (related)
nationalist (related)
ruling class (related)
peasantry (related)
communists (related)
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middle-class (related)
communist (related)
fascism (related)
intelligentsia (related)
socialist (related)
reformist (related)
bolshevik (related)
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lower-class (related)
protestant (related)
middleclass (related)
lower-middle-class (related)
upper class (related)
Find another word for working-class. In this page you can discover 47 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for working-class, like: blue-collar workers, common laborer, common laborers, factory laborer, factory laborers, grass-roots, laboring class, plebeians, proles, proletariat and rank-and-file.