working-class area
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working-class
adjective
uk/ˌwɜː.kɪŋˈklɑːs/us/ˌwɝː.kɪŋˈklæs/
belonging to a social group that consists of people who earn less than other groups, often being paid only for the hours or days that they work, and who usually do physical work rather than work for which you need an ...
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area
noun
uk/ˈeə.ri.ə/us/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofworking-classandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As inhabitants of a largelyworking-classarea, they had escaped from the factory and their children would not be destined for factory work.
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Surely it ought not to be necessary to take these drastic steps in thisworking-classarea.
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I was brought up in aworking-classareawhere we were close unto ourselves.
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Is he also aware that this is aworking-classareawith few private telephones, and will he look into this matter again?
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He was talking about a grammar school in what he called aworking-classareaand about the headmaster who had created it.
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It is quite remarkable that it is not only the parents of a child in aworking-classareawho appear to find this topic embarrassing.
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It is aworking-classareaand fewer people go to university, but the feeling on the doorstep was strong.
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I come from aworking-classarea.
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It is essentially aworking-classareawith workers who spend their time handling many of the primitive things of life, such as steel, clay and coal.
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Mine is aworking-classarea, and two-thirds of my constituents live in shared accommodation, many of them sharing lavatories and bathrooms.
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I should have referred to the types of properties that company is to be given permission to erect in aworking-classareawhich has just about every problem there is.
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If one goes down any street in aworking-classarea, one finds that most of the houses which have had bathrooms put in or have been well maintained are owner-occupied.
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