proletarianization
/ˌpɹoʊ.ləˌtɛ.ɹi.ə.nəˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
8
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[H]e would have found if he had lived for another half-century, and can be credited for foreseeing in 1906, such a disintegration and proletarianisation of society as he understood it as to transform it into a mob, and such a weakening of the national will as to leave it purposeless and helpless."
- "[Alice Crolley] Browning and [Fern] Gayden's commitment to publishing work by both black and white working-class and novice writers constituted one of the first commercial proletarianizations of African-American literature in the city's—and the country's—history."
- "Pereira (2016) speaks of performativity schemes designed to monitor individual and institutional performance which according to Burrows (2012) are based on metrics and ranking structures that enable and legitimise a "quantified control" (Burrows (2012) in Pereira (2016), p. 100) of the different types of academic work, throwing many research activities, including publication, into contexts of new proletarianisations."
- "For this is clear: the whole reason for the existence of socialistic agitation, as it is to-day attempted, with the cry of a "need of nature" in the economic development, falls to the ground in the moment when this economic development does not lead to the proletarianisation of the masses and to the communisation of the processes of production—to mercantile operations on a large scale."
- "Whether the proletarianization of the masses continues or not, whether [Karl] Marx's theory of value is exact or not, these and other related questions, while of the greatest importance, do not interest him [Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk] as a philosopher."
- "The representation of the Russian commune as a system that will save the population from proletarianization is equally false. According to the preceding chapters, we know that the progress of proletarianization in Russia has been extremely rapid, despite the existence of the commune."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɹoʊ.ləˌtɛ.ɹi.ə.nəˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
- British English: /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˌtɛː.ɹɪ.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩/
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable