adjective
- Working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e. G. Annual) salaries.
- usage: "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
- synonyms: working-class
- Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers."party of the propertyless proletariat- G. B. Shaw
- synonyms: propertyless, working-class, blue-collar
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