noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an urban underclass
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The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From this perspective, the rioters are not a unique group but rather are comparable to others in the urban underclass .
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People are worried about crime, about the tremors of the underclass .
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Such exclusion from citizenship is again the mark of the underclass .
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The underclass in Dahrendorf's account is not simply the product of unemployment.
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The definition of underclass has been disputed over the past two decades.
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The work of Tennyson coexisted with the devastation of an urban underclass described by Dickens.
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This does not mean that the younger members of the underclass pose no threat to public order.