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. Donald Trump:

   No issue better illustrates the divide between America's working class and political class than illegal immigration.

2. Sean McElwee:

   To ensure that we keep the House in 2022, (Biden) needs to deliver immediate and visible benefits to working class and middle class Americans, and that means you have to take the ship of government that has been utterly wrecked by Republicans and rebuilding it in a way that can actually deliver benefits to people.

3. Gianluca Abblasio:

   It's a story that wants to show something about my city Rome and this area that is a working-class area, something that is not the stereotype of Rome -- something different that is not shown very often by mass media, but that is real.

4. Shireen Ahmed:

   It becomes not just a racialized issue, it's a class issue, and those two things go hand-in-hand. Not everybody's going to be a working-class hero.

5. Jason Smith:

   Working-class people have become disillusioned with Labour, in Bradford West, they're looking towards George Galloway. In Bradford South, they're looking towards UKIP.