working class : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: working class	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for working class
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
working class n a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" Synonym(s): labor, labour, working class, proletariat
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}. The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer. {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. {Working day}. See under {Day}, n. {Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. {Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. {Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.