salariat

[ suh-lair-ee-uht ]

noun

1. the class of workers in an economy who receive salaries.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salariat¹

1915–20; < French: blend of Latin salārium salary ( French salaire ) and French prolétariat proletariat

Example Sentences

Of course, this is not the end of the salariat.

From Salon

As French writer Jean-Pierre Gaudard put it recently, we are witnessing the end of the salariat and judging by the presence of US casual labor everywhere, the US is taking the hardest hit.

From Forbes

It was Taine who famously described the Jacobin revolution as the product of an impoverished salariat, an oversupply of educated labour: "students in garrets, bohemians in lodgings, physicians without patients and lawyers without clients in lonely Offices…so many Marats, Robespierres, and St Justs in embryo."

From The Guardian

Paris, '92; Esprit de Révolte, Paris, '92, 5th ed.; le Salariat, 2d ed.,

From Project Gutenberg

People who for years had been ground down by high prices for the commonest necessities, considered seriously the question of the "salariat" joining forces with organizing labour under a banner that might be red.

From Project Gutenberg