working-class

Questions about working-class

What does working-class mean?

working-class means "of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in working-class?

working-class has 3 syllables: wor-king--class. The stress falls on "wor".

What is another word for working-class?

Close synonyms include propertyless, wage-earning, blue-collar, wage-earning. 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 "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.