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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-541/
- Published: 2021-07-23T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-06T02:31:53.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

The word for today is…

proleteriat (noun) –

1 : the laboring class *especially* : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live  
2 : the lowest social or economic class of a community

Source : [Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/word/proletariat?ref=goodoil.news#etymonline%5Fv%5F30413)

Etymology : “the lowest and poorest class,” 1853, from French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius. In political economics, “indigent wage-earners”, “the class of wage-workers dependent on daily or casual employment” from 1856\. The Englished form proletary was used 16c.-17c. in the older sense and revived in the modern sense by 1865\. The Leninist phrase ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is attested from 1918.

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