lower-class
adjective
ukus POLITICS, ECONOMICS
belonging or relating to a social group who are poor and usually do not have a very high level of education:
He claims his flat-tax proposal would help middle-class and lower-class Americans.
She described the brutal realities of lower-class life during the Depression.
Compare
the middle class
upper class
working-class
lower class
noun [ S ]
I am from the lower class and I have never forgotten it.