English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French salariat.

Noun

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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

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Etymology

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From salarié +‎ -at, modeled after prolétariat.

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  • IPA(key): /sa.la.ʁja/
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salariat m (plural salariats)

  1. (economics) salariat

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Past participle of salaria.

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Adjective

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

  1. salaried

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Verb

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salariat

  1. past participle of salaria