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Noun: proletariate
Usage: archaic
  1. A social class comprising those who do manual labour or work for wages
    "The proletariate organized to demand better working conditions";
    - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], working class, proletariat

Derived forms: proletariates

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

Encyclopedia: Proletariate