Working-class synonyms

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blue-collar workers
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common laborer
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common laborers
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suburban (related)
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factory laborer
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factory laborers
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grass-roots
The common people, orig. those esp. of rural or nonurban areas, thought of as best representing the basic, direct political interests of the electorate
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laboring class
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plebeians
Plural form of plebeian
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proles
Plural form of prole
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proletariat
The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.
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rank-and-file
The body of soldiers of an army, as distinguished from the officers
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the other half
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unskilled laborers
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wage-earners
Plural form of wage earner
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workers
Plural form of worker
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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working people
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working stiff
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working stiffs
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workpeople
Plural form of workperson
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propertyless
Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.
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wage-earning
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; - G.B.Shaw
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blue-collar
Designating or of industrial workers, often, specif., the semiskilled or unskilled
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labor
A political party representing workers' interests, especially in Great Britain.
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labour
Labour is the British spelling of the world labor, which is defined as work.
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down-at-heel (related)
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second-homers (related)
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proletarian (related)
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bourgeoisie (related)
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nationalist (related)
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ruling class (related)
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peasantry (related)
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communists (related)
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middle-class (related)
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intelligentsia (related)
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socialist (related)
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reformist (related)
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bolshevik (related)
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lower-class (related)
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middleclass (related)
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lower-middle-class (related)
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upper class (related)
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unskilled laborer
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communist (related)
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fascism (related)
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protestant (related)
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  • Carl was born into a working-class Jewish family in New York in 1934.

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  • Cayce had an eighth-grade education, something that was not unusual for a young man from a working-class family at the time.

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