work·ing-class
ˈwər-kiŋ-ˈklas 
: of, relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners
working-class virtues
a working-class family
: the class of people who work for wages usually at manual labor
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Raised in Blackpool, England, after his adoption into a working-class family, Ball grew up a budding artist with a penchant for the Northern soul craze then sweeping the north of England, obsessively collecting Tamla and Stax singles.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
But overall Mamdani’s platform seems to speak especially to Hollywood’s working class.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The picture opens as Bruce is riding high, perhaps a little too high for a working-class Freehold, New Jersey kid who bought his first guitar after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Raised in Blackpool, England, after his adoption into a working-class family, Ball grew up a budding artist with a penchant for the Northern soul craze then sweeping the north of England, obsessively collecting Tamla and Stax singles.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
There’s Staten Island — working class, the world of the secretaries, the world that takes the ferry in to the financial district in New York.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
But overall Mamdani’s platform seems to speak especially to Hollywood’s working class.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/working-class. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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