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underclass
[ uhn-der-klas, -klahs ]
noun
- a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status.
underclass
/ ˈʌԻəˌɑː /
noun
- a class beneath the usual social scale consisting of the most disadvantaged people, such as the unemployed in inner cities
Grammar Note
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of underclass1
Example Sentences
There are the “winners” in this increasingly stratified society who can move into formerly working-class, poor, and underclass communities and buy/rent property.
The book explores his firsthand experience of the poverty and addiction of a rural underclass, while offering a glimpse into the Vances' relationship.
I will secure and defend our borders — but I will also stop consigning many who are here to a permanent underclass.
"It was an era when women were still the underclass in the working world," Natacha said.
They’ve created a new underclass of gambling addicts while largely failing to fulfill their advocates’ assurances that state-sponsored and regulated gambling would produce a new, risk-free revenue stream for state and local budgets.
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