Synonyms for working class
work·ing class

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1. working classadjective

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar

2. working classadjective

   Relating to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance or other qualities.

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar

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1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatadjective

   a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

   "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

   of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

   "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, middle-class, upper-class

3. wage-earning, working-classadjective

   working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

   "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

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1. Michael Levin:

   And apparently it's still up on YouTube, and I think the Warren people just googled ‘American Dream,’ found us, and said, ‘What a nice mixed-race couple. They're probably sort of working-class people.’.

2. Pauline Jones:

   I'm hoping he (Nigel Farage) doesn't come to me because it's lies, they're just feeding the 'simple people', the working class people, lies, that it's going to be better.

3. Josh Hawley:

   At lunch yesterday… I just made the point that if we're going to ask independent working class people to vote for us… we've actually got to do something that is good for them, we ought to be the party that is for that, and we shouldn't be the party that is defending the suits and defending the multinational corporations and defending the C-suite.

4. Erin Perrine:

   The end of Democrats’ unified government in D.C. is mired in partisan pettiness. Instead of working to combat the inhumane Biden border crisis, fentanyl killing an entire generation of Americans, or securing economic prosperity for the future, Democrats are set to stonewall Republicans, release a private citizen’s tax returns, and blow an even bigger hole in our debt and deficit, really tells the American people all they need to know about Democrat priorities — cheap political points that do nothing to better the lives of working-class Americans.

5. Jeremy Ferguson:

   This is a chance for the Democrats to stand up for something they say they support, the working class and labor.