Word

proletariat, n.
(proletariats)
freq. cnt. 1

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

labor labour proletariat working class

sample sentences

"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

proletarian

semantic pointers

hypernym

class, social class, stratum, socio-economic class

hyponym

labor force, labor pool lumpenproletariat organized labor

member meronym

worker, proletarian, prole