working-class background

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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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background
noun
uk
/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/us
/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/
the things that can be seen behind the main things or people in ...
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I come from aworking-classbackground.
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She described herself as coming from aworking-classbackground.
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In fact, she used to be very fond of telling us about herworking-classbackground.
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I am interested to know what an unambiguousworking-classbackgroundis.
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He has experience of a goodworking-classbackgroundand understands what slums are.
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But in aworking-classbackground, when someone is under-achieving and feels frustrated, that may well be happening.
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Ofworking-classbackgroundand trained as a typographer, he was the quintessential self-made intellectual, known as the most philosophical of proletarians and the most proletarian of philosophers.
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His career trajectory, primarily one of transition through positions of increasing power and prestige, is based on practical experience; coming from aworking-classbackground, he posseses no academic credentials.
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This part of the family history was not withheld, but just wasn't talked about because my father, who came from aworking-classbackground, had made a middle-class marriage.
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Men ofworking-classbackgrounddid not do as well as men from middle-class homes.
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His success was attributed to policies based on social justice and hisworking-classbackground.
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There are many solicitors who have not found an impenetrable barrier in moving from aworking-classbackgroundinto the profession.
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In it universities were graded according to how many of their students satisfied the description of coming from aworking-classbackground.
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He grew up with aworking-classbackgroundand lost his father at a very young age.
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However, he was soon blackballed from court because of hisworking-classbackgroundand shrewd business practices.
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The poets generally came from aworking-classbackgroundand went to art college rather than university.
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Though initially both attracted and repelled by hisworking-classbackground, she eventually decides that she loves him.
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It would also go a long way towards improving relations generally—since the majority of teachers are ofworking-classbackground—if we can equate training college students with university students.
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