English > proletariat: 1 sense > noun 1, groupMeaning | A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages. |
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Synonyms | labor, labour, working class |
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Members | proletarian, prole, worker | A member of the working class (not necessarily employed) |
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Narrower | labor force, labor pool | The source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
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lumpenproletariat | (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement |
organized labor | employees who are represented by a labor union |
Broader | class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class | People having the same social, economic, or educational status |
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Spanish | clase obrera, clase trabajadora, proletariado, trabajadores |
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Catalan | classe obrera, classe treballadora, proletariat, treballadors |
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Adjectives | proletarian | belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat |
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