#socio-economic_class__class__clas__socialclas  people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
  supertype:  people  (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
  member of:  class_structure
  subtype:  world.socio-economic_class__domain  people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world"
     subtype:  academia__academe  the academic world
     subtype:  Grub_Street  the world of literary hacks
  subtype:  age_class__ageclas  people in the same age range
  subtype:  agriculture  the class of people engaged in growing food
  subtype:  fraternity__brotherhood  people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity"
  subtype:  estate_of_the_realm__estate  a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
     subtype:  fourth_estate__press__pres  newspaper writers and photographers
        subtype:  gutter_press  (British) press that engages in sensaional journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures)
        subtype:  press_corps  a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics; "the White House press corps"
  subtype:  labor__labour__working_class__workingclas__proletariat  a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
     subtype:  labor_force__laborforce__labor_pool__laborpool  the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
  subtype:  lower_class__lowerclas  the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
  subtype:  middle_class__bourgeoisie  the social class between the lower and upper classes
     subtype:  petite_bourgeoisie__petit_bourgeois__petitbourgeoi__petty_bourgeoisie__pettybourgeoisie  lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)
  subtype:  booboisie  class consisting of all those who are considered boobs
  subtype:  commonalty__commonality__common  class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank
     subtype:  third_estate__thirdestate  the third estate of the realm; the commons (especially in Britain or France) viewed as forming a political order having representation in a parliament
  subtype:  peasantry  the class of peasants
  subtype:  demimonde  a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior
  subtype:  underworld  the criminal class
  subtype:  yeomanry.socio-economic_class  class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
  subtype:  caste.socio-economic_class  a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
  subtype:  caste  (Hindu) a hereditary social class stratified according to ritual purity
     instance:  Brahmin__Brahman  Kshatriya  Vaisya  Shudra__Sudra
  subtype:  upper_class__upperclas__upper_crust__uppercrust  the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
     subtype:  elite  a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
        subtype:  elect__chosen  an exclusive group of people: "one of the elect who have power inside the government"
        subtype:  cream.elite  the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
        subtype:  intelligentsia__clerisy  an educated and intellectual elite
           subtype:  literati  the literary intelligentsia
        subtype:  high_society__society__beau_monde__smart_set__bon_ton  the fashionable elite
        subtype:  few.elite  a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
        subtype:  aristocracy  a privileged class holding hereditary titles
           subtype:  noblesse  members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
           subtype:  peerage__baronage  the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
           subtype:  second_estate__lords_temporal__lordstemporal  the second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl or viscount or baron
           subtype:  knighthood  aristocrats holding the rank of knight
           subtype:  samurai  feudal Japanese military aristocracy
           subtype:  Ferdinand_and_Isabella  joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
           subtype:  William_and_Mary  joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II
     subtype:  gentry__aristocracy  the most powerful members of a society
        subtype:  landed_gentry__squirearchy  the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
     subtype:  ruling_class  the class of people exerting power or authority
  subtype:  firing_line  the most advanced and responsible group in an activity; "the firing line is where the action is"
  subtype:  immigrant_class__immigrantclas  recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds
  subtype:  center.socio-economic_class  politically moderate persons; centrists
  subtype:  old_school__oldschool  a class of people favoring traditional ideas
  subtype:  market  the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
     subtype:  black_market.market__blackmarket  people who engage in illicit trade
  subtype:  craft.socio-economic_class__trade  people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"
  subtype:  womanhood  women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"

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