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Word of the Day – Proletariat

By February 24, 2016Word of the Day

Proletariat (n)

proh-leh-tare-e-at

Working-class people regarded collectively.

(In Marxist theory) the class of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labour to survive.

Example sentences

“I wonder how rich, the rich would feel without the proletariat to act as comparison.”

“The most important audience for any politician is the proletariat.”

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