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peasantry::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
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In addition, Hongwu also reduced the demands for forced labour on the peasantry.
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The Junkers thus cemented their political power at the expense of the peasantry.
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They projected themselves as the protagonists of the interests of the peasantry.
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This movement recruited supporters from both the large landowners and peasantry.
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This is an effort to change the rules to silence opposition from the peasantry.
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He emphasized political mobilization of the common man, especially the peasantry.
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I realize that the peasantry is not going to dine on complex multi-layered meals.
From the economist.com
Haiti's peasantry constituted approximately 75 percent of the total population.
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Among the peasantry, subsistence cultivation of corn and potatoes also increased.
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- The class of peasants
- (peasant) a country person
- (peasant) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- (peasant) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or more generally, in any pre-industrial society. In Europe, peasants were divided into three classes according to their personal status: slave, serf, and free tenant...
- Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands; An ignorant person of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics
- (peasant) A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture; A country person; An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person; a ...
- (Peasant) Members of the lowest class in some social class systems.
- (peasant) a person who works the land, usually for someone else.
