proletariat Definition
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proletariat
noun
- 1. The working class, especially unskilled labourers and industrial workers.
2. In Marxist theory: the class of wage workers, especially industrial ones, whose chief source of income is the sale of their labour power.
3. historical
- In ancient Rome: the lowest class of people.
