proletariat

Noun
  1. A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (synset 108197557)
    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
    is a type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum - people having the same social, economic, or educational status
    subtypes:
    • 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
    member holonym: prole, proletarian, worker - a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    same as: labor, labour, working class

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