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casualisation

casualisation noun: the process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.

Noun

casualisation (countable and uncountable, plural casualisations)

  1. The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
  2. The process of making anything casual.
    • While there are some Cockney elements observable in northern English (such as /t/ fronting), other regions of Britain have manifested their own casualisations of RP towards the local vernaculars. So people talk of 'posh Geordie', 'posh Brummy', 'posh Scouse', 'posh Yorkshire Leeds' and so on […]2002, Peter Stockwell, Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students, page 40

Forms of casualisation

pluralcasualisations

Origin of casualisation

From casual + -isation.

Questions about casualisation

What does casualisation mean?
Casualisation means the process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
What part of speech is casualisation?
Casualisation is a noun.
What is the plural of casualisation?
The plural of casualisation is casualisations.

Words near casualisation in the dictionary

  1. casual gaming
  2. casual sex
  3. casual ward
  4. casual wards
  5. casual water
  6. casualisation
  7. casualisations
  8. casualise
  9. casualised
  10. casualises
  11. casualising

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