Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.
- noun The poorest class of working people.
- noun The propertyless class of ancient Rome, constituting the lowest class of citizens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
proletariate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
working class or lowerclass . - noun The
wage earners collectively, excludingsalaried workers. - noun history In ancient Rome, the lowest
class ofcitizens , who had noproperty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In Russia, where the proletariat is armed, the proletariat becomes the only real influential body.
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By 'proletariat' is meant the class of people without capital which sells its labor for a living.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010
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By 'proletariat' is meant the class of people without capital which sells its labor for a living.
The Class Struggle 1905
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Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers.
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Yes I do like the humour of throwing the word proletariat at Labour MP's who have sold out and whored away all the last vestiges of socialism.
Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia" FIDO The Dog 2009
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Yes I do like the humour of throwing the word proletariat at Labour MP's who have sold out and whored away all the last vestiges of socialism.
Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Clearly I have major “competition”: the entire German-Jewish intellectual proletariat is assembled here.
Balkinization 2006
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Later, the importance of the proletariat is shown when Boxer suddenly falls and there is suddenly a drastic decrease in work productivity.
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The proletariat is also quite good at convincing each other that communism is a good idea.
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Nevertheless it is perfectly safe to say that in the larger towns, where the higher-priced drama coexists with the motion-picture plays, the line of cleavage is sharply drawn in the character of the audience, and this line is the same line which marks the proletariat from the bourgeoisieand capitalist class.
sherry28 commented on the word proletariat
" The immaculate white sand beaches , the stolidly proletariat mexican fishermen , sunsets on the beach and cold Coronas ." From: All we ever wanted was everything . Author: Janelle Brown . Page: 244
October 16, 2010