[sing.+sing./pl.v.] (technical) (used especially when talking about the past) the class of ordinary people who earn money by working, especially those who do not own any property:
the industrial proletariat * Marx wrote of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
compareBOURGEOISIE
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