leisured class
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A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
The number of the leisured class, enjoying large incomes without participating in any local industry, is relatively small, but is said to be on the increase.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
It must be remembered that there was one difficulty in the way—the absence of any noble or leisured class to be entrusted with the greater offices.
From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)
It must not be supposed that all that has been described is only possible, or only needed, in the boarding school or only for a specially leisured class.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
