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Vinony

underclass

noun

  1. segment of the population that occupies the lowest possible position in a class hierarchy
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English class English underclass From under- + class.

  1. The poorest class of people in a given society.

    “The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.”

    “Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.”