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BNC: 13293 COCA: 15170

underclass

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underclass /ˈʌndɚˌklæs/ Brit /ˈʌndəˌklɑːs/ noun
plural underclasses
underclass
/ˈʌndɚˌklæs/ Brit /ˈʌndəˌklɑːs/
noun
plural underclasses
Learner's definition of UNDERCLASS
[count]
: a social class made up of people who are very poor and have very little power or chance to improve their lives : the lowest social class社会底层;贫困阶层usually singular通常用单数
BNC: 13293 COCA: 15170

underclass

noun

un·​der·​class ˈən-dər-ˌklas How to pronounce underclass (audio)
: the lowest social stratum usually made up of disadvantaged minority groups

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web This is the smell, as suggested again and again in previous scenes, of the underclass—the stench of its futile labor, of its mountainous debt, of its predestined failure. Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 Like other cities in previous eras—Coleman Young’s Detroit, Marion Barry’s Washington, Sharpe James’s Newark, N.J.—Buffalo’s black underclass has gotten poorer under the direction of black politicians. Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 17 May 2022 Soon Shakur, too, became a Black radical, just as the civil rights momentum beget riots demanding an economic revolution, one that would take into account the intractable financial obstacles facing the Black underclass. Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022 In Kabul, war and poverty have long created a permanent underclass of child beggars, scavengers and shoeshine boys, but their numbers have soared in recent months. Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022 But while The Edukators has sympathy for its underclass, Windfall is pitiless. Kate Knibbs, Wired, 18 Mar. 2022 Knight is fond of thickly underlining the metaphors at play in his scripts, but Dirty Pretty Things still delivers a powerful message about the lives of the modern British underclass. David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022 Seeing only a black underclass ignores the growth of the black middle and upper classes. Gil Troy, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022 Homelessness, which in Reagan-era New York City seemed to be a temporary aberration, has since curdled into something more like a structural disaster, making a permanent underclass of economic and mental health victims. New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of underclass was in 1918
BNC: 13293 COCA: 15170

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