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adj. - The lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no belongings adj. - Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.

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  • Party of the propertyless proletariat
  • And for decades they resisted extending the franchise to less favored groups such as propertyless working men, immigrants, racial minorities, and women.
  • In Marxism, this term refers to propertyless factory workers.
  • Pius XI called the non-owning workers the "proletariat" — propertyless.
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