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working-class

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Adjective

working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
- working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor

of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
- party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw

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Synonyms:
wage-earning propertyless blue-collar

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