The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proletariate \Prol`e*ta"ri*ate\, n.
The lower classes; beggars. ``The Italian proletariate.''
--J. A. Symonds.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of proletariat English)
Usage examples of "proletariate".
Then I removed the leather costume of the victim, donned it, laced on his boots, which by good fortune were loose instead of tight, and, picking up his visored cap from the floor where it had fallen, stood forth to all seeming as genuine a member of the proletariate as ever wore goggles and held a wheel.
Patriarch Leonardo Somoza, former member of the Union Proletariate, highest-ranking UA officer on the Moon .
The Proletariate realized that, sooner or later, Coyote would require the services of a master architect, someone able to tackle the most difficult engineering problems.
One of the tenets of collectivist theory was that individuals should be willing to make sacrifices for the greater good of society, so when the Proletariate decided that Coyote needed the talents of James Alonzo Garcia, he awoke one morning to find all his lines of credit frozen, his travel permits denied, his contacts no longer willing to answer the phone, and a Patriarch and two Proctors waiting in his office with an offer that he could not refuse.