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Noun: proletariat  ,prow-lu'teh-ree-ut
  1. A social class comprising those who do manual labour or work for wages
    "there is a shortage of skilled proletariat in this field";
    - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], working class, proletariate [archaic]

Derived forms: proletariats

Type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum

Encyclopedia: Proletariat

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