Definition of proletariat
1 : the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
2 : the lowest social or economic class of a community
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the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution
Origin and Etymology of proletariat
French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius
First Known Use: 1847
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