casualization

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A form of casualisation — The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.

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Meanings

nouncasualization (countable and uncountable, plural casualizations)

plural casualizations

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of casualisation.
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    But in the words of a recent National Research Council report, women have "entered academia in increasing numbers at a time when opportunities for obtaining more permanent and prestigious faculty positions [have] begun to decline" […]. In some disciplines, the casualization of the academic workforce has reached crisis proportions […].

    2009 January, Margaret A. M. Murray, “A Celebration of Women in Mathematics at MIT”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1http://www.ams.org/notices/200901/, page 46

Origin

From casual + -ization.

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APA

casualization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/casualization

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“casualization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/casualization. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “casualization,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/casualization.

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