| NOUN | group | working class, labor, labour, proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages |
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| Meaning | A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages. | |
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| Synonyms | labor, labour, proletariat | |
| Members | proletarian, prole, worker | A member of the working class (not necessarily employed) |
| Narrower | labor force, labor pool | The source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
| 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 |
| Spanish | clase obrera, clase trabajadora, proletariado, trabajadores | |
| Catalan | classe obrera, classe treballadora, proletariat, treballadors | |
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