proletariate
noun
Meaning
- The working class or lower class.
- The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.
- (history) In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property; "regarded as contributing nothing to the state but offspring" (OED, 1992).
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