peasantry
noun
peas·ant·ry
| \ ˈpe-zᵊn-trē
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Virtually all the books, however, demonstrate Simenon’s lasting fondness for and understanding of the country peasantry and the urban working classes. — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, "Maigret All Day," 22 July 2019 Then-leader Mao Zedong had ordered educated youth from politically influential families to be sent to the countryside to learn from the peasantry. — Washington Post, "Trusted Xi ally a rising influence on China’s foreign policy," 19 May 2018 Karl Marx famously argued that the enclosure of common agricultural lands for private grazing, shutting out and impoverishing the peasantry, created a supply of labor for industry in towns: the first proletariat. — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, "A System in Denial," 16 Apr. 2018 Virtually all the books, however, demonstrate Simenon’s lasting fondness for and understanding of the country peasantry and the urban working classes. — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, "Maigret All Day," 22 July 2019 Then-leader Mao Zedong had ordered educated youth from politically influential families to be sent to the countryside to learn from the peasantry. — Washington Post, "Trusted Xi ally a rising influence on China’s foreign policy," 19 May 2018 Karl Marx famously argued that the enclosure of common agricultural lands for private grazing, shutting out and impoverishing the peasantry, created a supply of labor for industry in towns: the first proletariat. — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, "A System in Denial," 16 Apr. 2018 Deprived of leadership, meeting places, offices, records, and sympathetic Socialist town councils, the landless peasantry became subject to the landowners’ conventional tactics of strike breaking and intimidation. — Michael Ebner, Slate Magazine, "“This Is the Violence of Which I Approve”," 30 Jan. 2017 The Portuguese attacker's ego is far too enlarged to commit to the peasantry of tracking back anymore - so Karim fills in. — SI.com, "FanView: Why Real Madrid's Karim Benzema Is the World's Most Underrated Striker," 10 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'peasantry.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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