working-class people

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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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people
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈpiː.pəl/us
/ˈpiː.pəl/
men, women, ...
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The party's overarching ideology rested on the belief thatworking-classpeoplewere entitled to a stable economic foundation.
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Such surrendering can also be traced to an unexamined belief about the nature ofworking-classpeople.
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The voices of ruralites,working-classpeopleand, to a lesser extent, women are hardly heard in these pages.
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In his answer to question 1, he said that it consisted ofworking-classpeople, teenage students, and housewives, in that order.
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Using this lead-in, citizens were asked about people with 'different political views to your own'; 'working-classpeople'; and 'middle-class people'.
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Soworking-classpeopleare often constructed as deficient in decorum, in values, in tradition, and so forth.
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The city's image was widely disseminated in postcards, the cinema and through the press, making it the resort of choice for middle- andworking-classpeople.
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This is a problem that touches the very lives of ourworking-classpeople.
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Hundreds of thousands ofworking-classpeoplehave been deprived, and will be deprived, of anything in the nature of security against that.
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We are asking for a small concession to friendly societies, composed as they largely are ofworking-classpeople, on a self-help basis.
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Crime has reached record levels and the victims areworking-classpeople.
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It can no longer allowworking-classpeopleto enjoy better living standards.
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There are middle-class people going around patronisingworking-classpeopleand telling them what they want.
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Working-classpeoplewill be talked into buying these houses which may need £300 or £400 spent on them in repairs in the next five-years.
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Working-classpeopleattach particular importance to education, because their labour is the only thing they have for sale.
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If we are to have victory against the antidemocratic forces, it will only be by rallying the people, and particularly theworking-classpeople.
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This, together with a warm and kindly heart, gave him a fine understanding ofworking-classpeople.
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That was a common experience ofworking-classpeoplein the blitzed cities.
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I do not accept the romantic picture of a heroic, golden age, withworking-classpeoplerefusing to get into debt.
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There has been a tremendous boom in "do-it-yourself" because very fewworking-classpeople—great masses of our people—can afford heavy bills for professional interior decoration.
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