"trousered class" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Sri Lanka. Pārlimēntuva. Senate, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 22, Issues 16-27, page 2461",
          "text": "From 1947 to 1956 the so-called freedom was simply confined to the trousered class, the capitalist class, the class who could ride in big limousines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, Peoples of the earth - Volume 12, page 120",
          "text": "They are part of the 'trousered class', highly educated and westernized.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Kurt A. Gingrich, Education and Empire",
          "text": "He joined the \"trousered\" class, which included \"journalists, doctors, teachers, lawyers, clerks, ministers, managers, police, soldiers, students, and artists.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Trevor Griffiths, These are the Times: A Life of Thomas Paine, page 13",
          "text": "In one half, merchants, professionals, speculators and country gentry, wigged, stocked, breeched and buckled, hold a million post-mortems on the day's dealings. In the other, the trousered classes - artisans, skillmen, journeymen - argue the toss over ale and pie. The boundary is fluid, but the lines are clearly drawn.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The social class of those who are educated and who perform skilled work for a living."
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          "social class",
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        ],
        [
          "educated",
          "educated"
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          "skilled",
          "skilled"
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          "work",
          "work"
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  "word": "trousered class"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Sri Lanka. Pārlimēntuva. Senate, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 22, Issues 16-27, page 2461",
          "text": "From 1947 to 1956 the so-called freedom was simply confined to the trousered class, the capitalist class, the class who could ride in big limousines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, Peoples of the earth - Volume 12, page 120",
          "text": "They are part of the 'trousered class', highly educated and westernized.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Kurt A. Gingrich, Education and Empire",
          "text": "He joined the \"trousered\" class, which included \"journalists, doctors, teachers, lawyers, clerks, ministers, managers, police, soldiers, students, and artists.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Trevor Griffiths, These are the Times: A Life of Thomas Paine, page 13",
          "text": "In one half, merchants, professionals, speculators and country gentry, wigged, stocked, breeched and buckled, hold a million post-mortems on the day's dealings. In the other, the trousered classes - artisans, skillmen, journeymen - argue the toss over ale and pie. The boundary is fluid, but the lines are clearly drawn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The social class of those who are educated and who perform skilled work for a living."
      ],
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  "word": "trousered class"
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