Meaning of precarity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of precariousness.
   countable, uncountable
2. A condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A phenomenon that catches a general tendency towards obscurity is what Standing calls "uptitling" - to give a job a high-sounding epithet to conceal its precarity and, I would say, its substance.”

“Does the boy sense, already, the precarity of all this?”

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