Synonyms for working class
work·ing class

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1. working classadjective

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar

2. working classadjective

   Relating to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance or other qualities.

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar

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1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatadjective

   a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

   "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

   of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

   "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, middle-class, upper-class

3. wage-earning, working-classadjective

   working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

   "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

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1. Amanda Mull:

   I think that working-class Georgians, a group that is largely people of color, are being sacrificed to the states economy, largely.

2. Opposing Kucinich:

   We want to bring them back into the Democratic Party, they are people in working-class communities, I have the ability to reach them. Why? Because that’s where I’m from.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   In order to defeat Trump we are going to need the largest voter turnout in the history of this country, in order to beat Trump, what we are going to have to do is speak to millions of working-class people who are today, working two or three jobs. Theyre worried about their kids. Theyre worried about retirement. They cant afford health care.

4. Miriam Medina:

   They keep increasing taxes on the working class, the people can’t take anymore with all of these increases.

5. Jay Gould:

   I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.