the proletariat

noun

: the lowest social or economic class of a community

especially : the working class

Examples of the proletariat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Bolsheviks had an ideology, a plan to destroy the old social order and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

But the vast majority of players not on that top tier, the proletariat, will benefit from the MLB proposal and its spend-at-least this much payroll floor. — Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026

Marx, in turn, cast the dialectic in economic terms, establishing the emancipation of the proletariat as history’s goal. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Our deals page is the proletariat's pick. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026

Rhymes for the proletariat

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