Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Aware of belonging to a particular socioeconomic class.
- adjective Supportive of class solidarity.
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- adjective of a person Aware of the
socioeconomic class of oneself and others. - adjective of a community
Stratified into such classes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of society) socially hierarchical
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Examples
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But in its less class-conscious setting across the Atlantic, the American hello took on a different aspect.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But in its less class-conscious setting across the Atlantic, the American hello took on a different aspect.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The heroic battle for freedom is being fought almost exclusively by the Russian working-class under the intellectual leadership of Russian socialists, thus once more demonstrating the fact that the class-conscious workingmen have become the vanguard of all liberating movements of modern times.
Revolution 2010
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And on the other hand, the class-conscious worker reads the statistics of the wealthy classes, knows what their incomes are, and how they get them.
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Freddie Drummond sat in the auto, quite composed, alongside Catherine Van Vorst; but looking out of Freddie Drummond's eyes was Bill Totts, and somewhere behind those eyes, battling for the control of their mutual body, were Freddie Drummond, the sane and conservative sociologist, and Bill Totts, the class-conscious and bellicose union workingman.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Meanwhile, window after window in the high office building on the right had been opened, and the class-conscious clerks were raining a shower of office furniture down on the heads of police and scabs.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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The philosophy of the survival of the fittest does not soothe the class-conscious worker when he learns through his class literature that among the Italian pants-finishers of Chicago {9} the average weekly wage is $1.31, and the average number of weeks employed in the year is 27.85.
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The ambition of these class-conscious men is that the movement shall become general, that all labor shall become conscious of itself and its class interests.
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Hierarchy has always been a big part of cricket, from the class-conscious gentlemen-and-players attitudes of the English authorities for most of their history to the seniority-based pecking orders of some South Asian teams, and this is just one way in which the newer versions of the game, especially T20, are overthrowing the old order and generating a new elite.
English Blaze Cricketing Trail Richard Lord 2011
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The second class-conscious capitalist organization is called the
THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010
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