Today’s “Word of the Day” is peasantry and it is a noun meaning “the class of people in rural areas who make their living through agricultural labour and farming small plots of land; agrarians, cultivators, tenantry, tillers, smallholders, agriculturists”.
Example Sentence: And, these women hired workers belonged not only to manual labour households but also to the lower rungs of the peasantry… Women workers hold up half the sky in rural India. The Indian state has failed to correctly record the number of women workers, and to ensure that they receive decent wages and all rights as workers.
This phrase is present in Holding up half the sky on India’s farms and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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