peasantizev.
/ˈpɛz(ə)ntʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpɛz(ə)nˌtaɪz/ transitive. To give the characteristics of a peasant economy to (an economy or social system); to make a peasant of (a person). Also intransitive with object implied.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [verb (reflexive)] > make oneself into a peasant
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1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. 513 They go West, to the colonies, the slums; devise new enterprises, sometimes almost want to peasantize themselves and fall in love with wheel-grease and the smell of the barnyard.
1926 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 2 Sept. 3/2 The administration policy, the Democrats alleged, would ‘peasantize’ agriculture.
1972 Current Anthropol. 13 406/1 All the further modernizing changes that intensified when colonialism ended work as well to turn them [sc. members of tribes] outward, to ‘peasantize’ and ‘nationalize’ them.
1992 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 18 567 Renamo..failed to follow-up its attack on the state and trading elite with a socio-economic programme to enable them to successfully peasantise through the market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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