ALL meanings of underclass
un·der·class
U u - noun underclass poor people 1
- noun underclass a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status. 1
- countable noun underclass A country's underclass consists of those members of its population who are poor, and who have little chance of improving their situation. 0
- noun underclass a class beneath the usual social scale consisting of the most disadvantaged people, such as the unemployed in inner cities 0
- noun underclass the socioeconomic class with incomes below subsistence level, including esp. the underprivileged 0
- noun underclass the poorest class of people in a given society. 0