Usually means: Economically disadvantaged, limited financial resources.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. lower class: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lower-class, lower class: Merriam-Webster
  3. lower class: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lower class: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lower-class, lower-class, lower class: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lower-class, lower class: Vocabulary.com
  7. lower-class: Wordnik
  8. lower class: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lower-class, lower class: Wiktionary
  10. lower class: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lower class: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lower-class, lower class: Dictionary.com
  13. Lower-class, Lower class: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. lower-class, lower class: Rhymezone
  15. lower-class, lower class: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lower-class, lower class: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. lower-class, lower class: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lower-class: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lower class: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lower class)

▸ noun:  A class of people in a society characterized by low incomes, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.

Similar:
low-class, working-class, proletarian, blue-collar, non-U, propertyless, upper-lower-class, wage-earning, underclass, underclasser, more...

Opposite:
upper class, high class, elite, aristocracy

Phrases:
lower middle class, upper lower class, American lower class, lower class people, lower class person, more...

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Similar:
low-class, working-class, proletarian, blue-collar, non-U, propertyless, upper-lower-class, wage-earning, underclass, underclasser, more...

Opposite:
upper class, high class, elite, aristocracy

Phrases:
lower middle class, upper lower class, American lower class, lower class people, lower class person, word for ignoring the lower class, to make lower in social class, more...



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