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/un"deuhr klas', -klahs'/, n.a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status.[1915-20; UNDER- + CLASS]Usage. See collective noun.
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Underclass — The contemporary concept of the underclass is a sanitized term for what was known in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the undeserving poor, and may have been coined by American sociologist and anthropologist Oscar Lewis in 1961. The… … Wikipedia
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underclass — UK [ˈʌndə(r)ˌklɑːs] / US [ˈʌndərˌklæs] noun [countable, usually singular] Word forms underclass : singular underclass plural underclasses the lowest social class in a society, consisting of people who are the poorest and have the least power … English dictionary
underclass — un|der|class [ˈʌndəkla:s US dərklæs] n [singular] the lowest social class, consisting of people who are very poor and who are not likely to be able to improve their situation ▪ an urban underclass, who have limited access to health care →↑social… … Dictionary of contemporary English
underclass — /ˈʌndəklas/ (say unduhklahs) noun a social class consisting of impoverished people of low social status who by the nature of their circumstances adopt the values of a subculture which rejects the mainstream way of life: *the social pool of the… …
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