|  proletariat 
 
 a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (Freq. 1)
 - there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
 • Syn:
 labor, labour, working class
 • Derivationally related forms:
 proletarian
 • Hypernyms:
 class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
 • Hyponyms:
 labor force, labor pool, lumpenproletariat, organized labor
 • Member Meronyms:
 proletarian, prole, worker
 
 
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