working-class

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working-class - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  working-class
      adj 1: of those who work for wages especially manual or
             industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless
             proletariat"- G.B.Shaw [syn: propertyless, wage-  earning
             , working-class, blue-collar]
      2: working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual)
         salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well
         as industrial labor" [syn: wage-earning, working-class]