"working-class" meaning in English

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      "form": "most working-class",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9",
          "text": "There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78",
          "text": "Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27",
          "text": "It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joe Studwell, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1st American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 55",
          "text": "But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-06",
          "text": "One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities."
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          "outlook",
          "outlook"
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          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "relating to working class",
          "word": "blue-collar"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "relating to the working class",
          "word": "työväenluokkainen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "working-class"
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    {
      "form": "more working-class",
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        "comparative"
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    },
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      "form": "most working-class",
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        "superlative"
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9",
          "text": "There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78",
          "text": "Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27",
          "text": "It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joe Studwell, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1st American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 55",
          "text": "But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-06",
          "text": "One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities."
      ],
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      "word": "blue-collar"
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      "sense": "relating to the working class",
      "word": "työväenluokkainen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "working-class"
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