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classed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Marked in terms of or connected with socioeconomic class.
    • Howard tries to popularize "culture" and make his farm-laborer audience aware of their role in its creation and consumption. To do so, however, Howard encourages a classed form of regional competition - a "we aren't going to let these rich city folk tell us what's what" mentality." 2004, Kristin L. Matthews, The Re(a)d Menace, page 34:
    • In this study, Mulberry Bush Nursery took exclusively fee-paying, predominantly white, middle class children from three months to three years old. This provided a site for highly classed and 'raced' relationships between nursery worker and mother, where the nursery worker is positioned in an inferior position of servitude to the professional middle-class mother. 2012, Jayne Osgood, Narratives from the Nursery, page 103: