'Working class' definitions:
Definition of 'working class'
(from WordNet)
noun
A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: labor, labour, working class, proletariat]
Definition of 'Working class'
From: GCIDE
- Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from Work. [1913 Webster]
- The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Working beam. See Beam, n. 10.
- Working class, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
- Working day. See under Day, n.
- Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings.
- Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse.
- Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'working class'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bourgeois,
- bourgeoisie,
- common people,
- common run,
- common sort,
- commonage,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- commoners,
- commons,
- laborers,
- linendrapers,
- lower classes,
- lower middle class,
- lower orders,
- lumpen proletariat,
- middle class,
- middle orders,
- middle-class,
- ordinary people,
- peasantry,
- plain folks,
- plain people,
- proletarian,
- proletariat,
- rank and file,
- shopkeepers,
- small tradesmen,
- the lower cut,
- the other half,
- the third estate,
- toilers,
- toiling class,
- upper middle class,
- vulgus,
- working people