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casualization

casualization is the alternative form of casualisation.

Meaning of casualisation

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 casualization

pluralcasualizations

Origin of casualization

From casual + -ization.

Questions about casualization

What is casualization the alternative form of?
Casualization is the alternative form of casualisation.

Words near casualization in the dictionary

  1. casualism
  2. casualisms
  3. casualist
  4. casualists
  5. casuality
  6. casualization
  7. casualizations
  8. casualize
  9. casualized
  10. casualizes
  11. casualizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casualization (page history and authors); casualisation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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