precariat

English

Etymology

Blend of precarious +‎ proletariat

Noun

precariat (countable and uncountable, plural precariats)

1. (sociology) People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.

Related terms

• precarious
• precarity
• precarization
• cognitariat

Translations

sociological group

• Catalan: precariat
• Danish: prekariat n
• Dutch: precariaat n
• Finnish: prekariaatti (fi)

• French: précariat (fr)
• German: Prekariat (de)
• Italian: precariato (it)
• Spanish: precariado (es) m