underclass — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The poorest class of people in a given society.

   Verwandte Wörter

   subculture

   Beispiele

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   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.

Adjektiv

1. belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum

   Beispiele

   underclass mothers and children

Substantiv

1. the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

   Synonyme

   lower class

   Oberbegriffe

   classstratumsocial classsocio-economic class