English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French salariat.

Noun edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

From salarié +‎ -at, modeled after prolétariat.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sa.la.ʁja/
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Noun edit

salariat m (plural salariats)

  1. (economics) salariat

Further reading edit

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Past participle of salaria.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

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

  1. salaried

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Verb edit

salariat

  1. past participle of salaria