working class

Questions about working class

What does working class mean?

working class means "a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages".

What is another word for working class?

Close synonyms include labor, labour, proletariat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is working class a common word?

working class is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.