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Meaning of casualisation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  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.

Equivalents

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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