| working class | |
| —n | |
| 1. | lower class middle class Compare upper class Also called: proletariat the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workers |
| —adj | |
| 2. | of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
In the United States, the population of blue-collar workers, particularly skilled and semiskilled laborers, who differ in values, but not necessarily in income, from the middle class. In Marxism, this term refers to propertyless factory workers.