Similar words: peasant, pleasantry, pheasant, pleasant, pleasantly, malfeasant, unpleasant, pleasantness. Meaning: ['pezntrɪ] 
n. the class of peasants.
n. the class of peasants. 
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1. The peasantry has shrunk from 74.6 millions to 65.5.
2. The Russian peasantry stood on the brink of disappearance.
3. But the commercial success paradoxically impoverished the peasantry.
4. Even more important was the peasantry.
5. In reality, the peasantry had no interest in socialism.
6. The peasantry still had virtually no rights whatsoever.
7. While attention remained focused upon the peasantry, renewed emphasis was given to contact with urban workers.
8. The peasantry were being drawn into the money economy, thereby raising consumer demand.
9. The role of the peasantry in the revolution or its relationship with the industrial proletariat was never satisfactorily defined by the Comintern.
10. The peasantry wanted noble land without paying compensation; they wanted to see taxation and conscription done away with.
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11. The peasantry, it seemed, were being squeezed in order to earn foreign exchange and uphold the value of the rouble.
12. As with the peasantry, strong ties of loyalty and obligation tend to prevent the development of permanent horizontal links.
13. Yet the peasantry represented, at least potentially, a lever of social change which the more moderate intelligentsia lacked.
14. The vast mass of peasantry could be neutralized by promising land reforms.
15. The debate over the middle peasantry can only be resolved by referring to concrete situations.
16. This argument puts forward the notion that the peasantry working in these conditions would provide revolutionary potential.
17. While some clung to the fading dream of direct transition to socialism based on the peasantry, others became intoxicated by Marxism.
18. During the fifteenth century, the laws of supply and demand worked in favour of the peasantry.
19. Marx originally argued that the growth of large-scale industry led to the demise of the peasantry and the development of the proletariat.
20. The commune provided some marginal bargaining power for the peasantry since concerted resistance could not be lightly dismissed.
21. They pursued the fugitives for about nine miles and then lit bonfires on the hill-tops to alert the local peasantry.
22. To tamper with serfdom was certain to arouse wild expectations among the peasantry and would require the most rigorous control.
23. These arrangements entrenched a distinctive land-owning pattern among the peasantry and perpetuated the peasantry's distance from other social estates.
24. Bazin was believed to have wide support among the peasantry in the countryside.
25. In this way, a small number of landowners can control the peasantry in rural areas.
26. Since the soldiery could only live by looting, the peasantry were rising out of sheer desperation.
27. The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry.
28. New merchant and professional classes arose and a proletariat developed out of the peasantry.
29. The commune was doomed by the spread of market relations and the peasantry were becoming divided between capitalists and propertyless rural labourers.
30. Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat.
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