Meaning of Underclass | Babel Free

Definitions

The poorest class of people in a given society.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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