Proletariat definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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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.

A sort of sub-proletariat is now being formed, dependent on welfare payments. — Gates of Vienna
Dictatorship of the proletariat is NOT communism, and not synonymous with the nationalization of private enterprises. — Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority, right????? — The Swamp
As is not unusual when backed by a media that likes nothing more than pitting company owners against a presumed proletariat, the Pacific Brands lynching continues. — duncanriley.com
What ignites Wilson at least as much as economic justice for the proletariat is the vision of humanity attaining its full glory, in the style of his many-sided cultural magnificos: — Claremont.org