Usually means: Working class; sells labor power.
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  1. proletariat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proletariat, the proletariat: Merriam-Webster
  3. proletariat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proletariat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proletariat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proletariat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proletariat, proletariat: Wordnik
  8. the proletariat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proletariat: Wiktionary
  10. proletariat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proletariat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proletariat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. proletariat: Dictionary.com
  14. Proletariat (disambiguation), Proletariat (party), Proletariat, The Proletariat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Proletariat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. proletariat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. proletariat: Rhymezone
  18. Proletariat (nt), proletariat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. proletariat: FreeDictionary.org
  20. proletariat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. proletariat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Proletariat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. proletariat: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. proletariat: Encyclopedia

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  3. proletariat: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. proletariat: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (proletariat)

noun:  (often derogatory, also figuratively) The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
noun:  (Marxism) Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).
noun:  (chiefly Ancient Rome, historical) The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.

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