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lower class

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Sociology
ˌlower ˈclass noun [countable] (also lower classes [plural])  old-fashionedSSCLASS IN SOCIETY the social class that has less money, power, or education than anyone else. This is now considered offensive. 下层阶级,劳工阶级〔现在被认为具有冒犯性〕 working class, middle class, upper classlower-class adjective
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lower classThen you got the beatnik, maybe a lower class of person.In college he loved a young girl of a lower class and ruined her; she died a suicide.Well, maybe, they could be, for once, treated just like their lower class brothers the football fans.Consequently, we propose to lower class sizes to 25 in the first three grades.His wife died from being too lower class.
ˌlower ˈclass nounChineseSyllable
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lower class
ˌlower ˈclass noun [countable] (also lower classes [plural])
old-fashioned the social class that has less money, power, or education than anyone else. This is now considered offensive ⇨ working class, middle class, upper class
—lower-class adjective