ಅರ್ಥ : Of or designating manual industrial work or workers.
Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers.
The coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper.ಅರ್ಥ : Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.
ಉದಾಹರಣೆ :
Party of the propertyless proletariat.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : propertyless, wage-earning, working-class