working-class district

collocation in English

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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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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition ofworking-classanddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is taken from a respectableworking-classdistrict.
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Not for a day will a room in anyworking-classdistrictthat is offered to be let remain vacant.
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Why should you put the whole burden upon a parish council in a purelyworking-classdistrict?
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Let us leave the cars out of it and take an ordinaryworking-classdistrictwhere a man is on night work.
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I represent aworking-classdistrictwhere a great deal of gas is consumed.
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Can you imagine that in a greatworking-classdistrictit is not possible to find more suitable people than the people who have been selected?
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The fact is that in any greatworking-classdistrict, a doctor is chosen for two reasons.
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That has reacted upon people in districts like mine, a poorworking-classdistrict, and made them feel that they have been a little unduly aspersed.
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Anyone who knows aworking-classdistrictknows what they have to do.
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One only needs to be in aworking-classdistrictto see day by day the difference in the appearance of the children on their way to school.
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It is in a very poorworking-classdistrictnear the docks, and while it is vital in peace it is more vital than ever in war.
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Why should you charge the local authority of a purelyworking-classdistrictwith the whole responsibility, during a time of national industrial depression, of looking after the poor?
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I cannot see anything very wrong in a number of boys in aworking-classdistrictdeciding to form a football club and going round to collect for it.
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If he is a newsagent in aworking-classdistricthe has to do the marking, folding and distribution of his papers between 4.30 and 5 in the morning.
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They raised their three children in aworking-classdistrictregarded as the city's slum.
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Briskebyen was aworking-classdistrict, made up of wooden houses built in the area before 1865.
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