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.
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Precarity
//pɹəˈkɛɹɪti//
Synonyms for "precarity" (2 found)
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- （生存狀態的）不穩定性 /（生存状态的）不稳定性 noun (condition of existence)
French
1 entries- précarité noun (condition of existence)
German
1 entries- Prekarisierung noun (condition of existence)
Greek
1 entries- επισφάλεια noun (condition of existence)
Spanish
1 entries- precaridad noun (condition of existence)
Swedish
1 entries- prekarisering noun (condition of existence)
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Does the boy sense, already, the precarity of all this?
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