英和和英

名詞

underclass (複数形 underclasses)

1. The poorest class of people in a given society.
   • 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

     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.

   • 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.

派生語

• underclasser
• underclassness
• underclassperson
• underclasswoman

参考

• subculture

参照

• underclass at OneLook Dictionary Search