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What does proletariat mean?

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Noun
  1. The working class or lower class.
  2. The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.
  3. Those who profit less than or proportional to the profit of their total labor.
  4. (historical) 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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She grew up as a member of this oppressed proletariat that Marx and Engels wrote about.
To the proletariat the imperial suffrage has been a mighty weapon in its battle for emancipation.
Many flocked to Rome, where they joined the proletariat of propertyless citizens dependent on handouts of free wheat by the state.
It is, in fact, a larger and more diverse section of the population than the old industrial proletariat of the middle of the last century.
The catastrophe into which the world has thrust the socialist proletariat is an unexampled misfortune for humanity.
The existence of palm leaf libraries lends credence to the proletariat nature of ancient Oriya literature.

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