salariat

American  

[suh-lair-ee-uht] / səˈlɛər i ət /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of salariat

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

"Have you ever heard," he inquired, "of the black-coated salariat?"

From Project Gutenberg