English noun: proletariat | |||
1. | proletariat (group) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | ||
Samples | There is a shortage of skilled labor in this field. | ||
Synonyms | labor, labour, working class | ||
Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | labor force, labor pool, lumpenproletariat, organized labor | ||
Member holonym | prole, proletarian, worker | ||