noun
definition
The poorest class of people in a given society.
Examples of underclass in a Sentence
Those without secure incomes appear to be forming a permanent underclass, with very few prospects of improving their life opportunities.
The early 19th century bourgeois fear of the ' dangerous classes ' now returned as the fear of the growing ' underclass ' .
The term ' vehicle underclass ' is used by many organizations to refer to those vehicles that do not comply with motoring laws.
This is largely dependent on MVRIB being effective in halving the 1.5million vehicles in the so-called ' underclass ' .
Do we want to create an underclass that cannot afford the cost of a card?
This in turn creates a growing underclass excluded from citizenship.
Patients who do not develop these skills could become the new underclass in a two-tier health system.
Unlike the US, the UK does not have a permanent underclass.
They do not want to create a " genetic underclass " .
To tackle crime and its underlying causes of a social underclass set apart from society's mainstream.
Many commentators refer to a ' black underclass ' .
They were also victims of a policy which was determined to eliminate the criminal underclass either by hanging or by transportation.
First, the concept of the vehicle underclass is defined.
We cannot tolerate the creation of an information underclass.
France is paralyzed by its own elite, leaving a despised, excluded, largely immigrant underclass of the poor and disenfranchised.
Otherwise they will reinforce failure and increase an education underclass, " he added.
Easy up, easy down, hence the " burgeoning peasant underclass " .
This must not be allowed to create an underclass of people who do n't deserve to have the resources of medicine available to them.
This is largely dependent on MVRIB being effective in halving the 1.5million vehicles in the so-called ' underclass '.
They do not want to create a " genetic underclass ".
To tackle crime and its underlying causes of a social underclass set apart from society 's mainstream.
Many commentators refer to a ' black underclass '.
Otherwise they will reinforce failure and increase an education underclass, he added.
Easy up, easy down, hence the " burgeoning peasant underclass ".
Earth has a new underclass, the In-Vitros; created people who are 'decanted' fully grown and then speed-educated for whatever purpose they have been designed.