proletariat

IPA: proʊɫʌtˈɛriʌt

(often derogatory, also figuratively) The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
(Marxism) Wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).
(chiefly Ancient Rome, historical) The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.

Examples of "proletariat" in Sentences

The proletariat is also quite good at convincing each other that communism is a good idea.
By 'proletariat' is meant the class of people without capital which sells its labor for a living.
In Russia, where the proletariat is armed, the proletariat becomes the only real influential body.
Clearly I have major “competition”: the entire German-Jewish intellectual proletariat is assembled here.
Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers.
Later, the importance of the proletariat is shown when Boxer suddenly falls and there is suddenly a drastic decrease in work productivity.
Yes I do like the humour of throwing the word proletariat at Labour MP's who have sold out and whored away all the last vestiges of socialism.
Nevertheless it is perfectly safe to say that in the larger towns, where the higher-priced drama coexists with the motion-picture plays, the line of cleavage is sharply drawn in the character of the audience, and this line is the same line which marks the proletariat from the bourgeoisieand capitalist class.