working-class suburb

collocation in English

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working-class
adjective
uk
/ˌwɜː.kɪŋˈklɑːs/us
/ˌwɝː.kɪŋˈklæs/
belonging to a social group that consists of people who earn less than other groups, often being paid only for the hours or days that they work, and who usually do physical work rather than work for which you need an ...
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suburb
noun
uk
/ˈsʌb.ɜːb/us
/ˈsʌb.ɝːb/
an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city ...
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(Definition ofworking-classandsuburbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The second serves a predominantlyworking-classsuburbwith a close affiliation with the local car-making industry.
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The fear of an epidemic originating in aworking-classsuburbthus seems to have been related to its distance from the city.
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Although the area was a predominantlyworking-classsuburbfor much of the 20th century, it has undergone some gentrification since the 1990s.
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He was brought up in aworking-classsuburb, in a family aspiring to reach middle-class status.
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It was mainly known as aworking-classsuburb.
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The suburb's historical voting patterns have been fairly typical of aworking-classsuburbwith a high migrant population.
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Caversham began largely as a lower-middle toworking-classsuburb.
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Stockton is aworking-classsuburb.
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Originally considered aworking-classsuburb, the area has become gentrified in recent years, and today features a mix of traditional worker's cottages and modern high-density apartment blocks.
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Since these working-class suburbs were new phenomena in the 1860s and 1870s there were few antecedents to draw inspiration from regarding how to handle the problem of distributing water there.
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A few industrial working-class suburbs (of one-family cottages with small green yards) emerged.
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