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working-class background

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meanings of working-classand background


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working-class
adjective
uk /ˌwɜː.kɪŋˈklɑːs/ us /ˌwɝː.kɪŋˈklæs/
belonging to a social group that consists of people who earn less than other groups, often being paid only for the hours or days that they work, and who usually do physical work rather than work for which you need an ...
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background
noun
uk /ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/ us /ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/
the things that can be seen behind the main things or people in ...
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Examples of working-class background


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I come from a working-classbackground.
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She described herself as coming from a working-classbackground.
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In fact, she used to be very fond of telling us about her working-classbackground.
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I am interested to know what an unambiguous working-classbackground is.
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He has experience of a good working-classbackground and understands what slums are.
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But in a working-classbackground, when someone is under-achieving and feels frustrated, that may well be happening.
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Of working-classbackground and trained as a typographer, he was the quintessential self-made intellectual, known as the most philosophical of proletarians and the most proletarian of philosophers.
His career trajectory, primarily one of transition through positions of increasing power and prestige, is based on practical experience; coming from a working-classbackground, he posseses no academic credentials.
This part of the family history was not withheld, but just wasn't talked about because my father, who came from a working-classbackground, had made a middle-class marriage.
Men of working-classbackground did not do as well as men from middle-class homes.
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His success was attributed to policies based on social justice and his working-classbackground.
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There are many solicitors who have not found an impenetrable barrier in moving from a working-classbackground into the profession.
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In it universities were graded according to how many of their students satisfied the description of coming from a working-classbackground.
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He grew up with a working-classbackground and lost his father at a very young age.
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However, he was soon blackballed from court because of his working-classbackground and shrewd business practices.
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The poets generally came from a working-classbackground and went to art college rather than university.
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Though initially both attracted and repelled by his working-classbackground, she eventually decides that she loves him.
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It would also go a long way towards improving relations generally—since the majority of teachers are of working-classbackground—if we can equate training college students with university students.
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