proletarian
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- noun
- /ˌproʊləˈtɛriən/
:
proletario
- In the realm of production, workers are usually low-paid proletarians in workshops who copy styles given to them by a manager, a sales intermediary, or a foreign buyer.
- labor of the proletarian
Those are the proletarians, those are the allies of the revolution.
- Those are the proletarians, those are the allies of the revolution.
Examples
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The book discusses how proletarians can unite to advocate for their rights in the workplace.
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Face it, you're a career proletarian.
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Those are the proletarians, those are the allies of the revolution.
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Or perhaps you've returned to your old idea that the proletarians will arise.
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Gonzalez carried the cultural dichotomy between the Puerto Rican elite and the proletarians to an extreme.
Academic text (1991) -
Popular mobilizations and protests increasingly take place on a community basis because a common fate of poverty and deprivation, which includes both formal and informal proletarians, provides the basis for collective action.
Academic text (2003) -
Many proletarians work long hours for low wages while struggling to support their families.
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During the strike, the proletarians rallied together to demand better working conditions.
Synonyms
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1.3
A person from the working class, not necessarily employed now
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2.8
People who do manual or factory work and earn hourly wages
Antonyms
Compounds
A mass political movement led by Mao in China from 1966 to 1976 that attacks intellectuals and causes widespread violence
An armed group in the Philippines formed in the 1980s that split from the main communist party and used violence
A secret Italian left-wing group known for bombings in Rome between 2000 and 2002
How Working-Class
Surface Forms
Morphology
proletarian = proletariat (transparent) = proletariat + ian
Formed from 'proletariat' with the standard adjectival/person-forming suffix '-ian', so the relation to the working class or a member of it is directly derivable.
Etymology
Proletarian comes from the Latin root proles, which means 'offspring' or 'children'. In ancient Rome the poorest people were called proletarii because their main value to the state was having children, and so proletarian came to mean a member of the working class who has little or no property.