salariat

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French salariat.

Noun

salariat (plural salariats)

  1. (economics) Salary earners as a class or group, often as opposed to wage earners.
    Coordinate terms: proletariat, precariat
    • 1954, J. S. Coleman, Nationalism in Tropical Africa, American Political Science Association
      geographical distribution of the wage-labor force and salariat?
    • 2011, Guy Standing, chapter 1, in The Precariat, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN, page 8:
      Below that elite comes the ‘salariat’, still in stable full-time employment, some hoping to move into the elite, the majority just enjoying the trappings of their kind, with their pensions, paid holidays and enterprise benefits, often subsidised by the state.

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French

Etymology

From salarié +‎ -at, modeled after prolétariat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.la.ʁja/
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Noun

salariat m (plural salariats)

  1. (economics) salariat

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of salaria.

Pronunciation

Adjective

salariat m or n (feminine singular salariată, masculine plural salariați, feminine and neuter plural salariate)

  1. salaried

Declension

Verb

salariat

  1. past participle of salaria