Underclass

Quick meaning: Underclass is a noun meaning The poorest class of people in a given society.

Meaning

The poorest class of people in a given society.

Example Sentences

Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.

While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.

The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.

Word Forms

• underclasses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underprivileged, subclass, excluded, lower class, underclasser, proletariat.

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