noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peasant revolt (= by people who work on farms )
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This was the best-known peasant revolt in Soviet history.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
landless
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For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives.
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No landless peasants or laid-off workers are using their meager savings to buy sophisticated guns and enter into a career of crime.
local
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He demanded the confiscation of all private estates, the nationalization of the land, and its management by local peasant soviets.
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It was a Sunday, and the hotel was packed, when 94 local peasants invaded and occupied the hotel.
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The local peasant press was in a lamentable condition still.
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A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time.
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In the villages the peasant committees consisted entirely of local peasants.
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He was beheaded by local peasants as he lay down on the hill to sleep after a large meal of local sheep.
old
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Niyonzima, a 40-year old peasant farmer, is about to become the first local tried for crimes against humanity.
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The old peasant was demonic in her rage.
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An old peasant woman finds the babies, cares for them, and begins searching for the true parents.
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There he stands crooked, pushed forwards with the chair legs sticking out behind, like an old peasant woman carrying firewood.
poor
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Far from being desperately poor peasants , the squatters were clearly city dwellers.
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The poorest peasant , in like case, would suffer no more.
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Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle, ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired.
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Similarly, the silk-wearing bourgeoisie of Granada contrasted with the poor , cotton-clad peasants from the mountains nearby.
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Here investment, the use of hired labour, the differentiation between richer and poorer peasants , made minimal progress.
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The simplicity of the sect attracted thousands of poor peasants .
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Especially those of the poor workers and peasants .
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Almost all, except the poor peasant occupiers, were indicted as reactionary landlords.
rich
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It began with the Agrarian Law of 30 June 1950, which ruthlessly ousted landed proprietors and rich peasants .
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Landlords and rich peasants were identified as the enemy and their power broken.
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Mixed farming, peasant agriculture, especially that of commercially-minded rich peasants, could flourish in such situations.
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Here investment, the use of hired labour, the differentiation between richer and poorer peasants , made minimal progress.
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To this extent the region was actually encouraging the formation of richer peasant strata at the expense of the poorer.
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Memories obviously lingered of the War Communism strategy of trying to divide richer from poorer peasants .
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Many soon found themselves in long-term debt to richer peasants , particularly in the Famine areas.
small
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More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed on to just 16 percent of the land.
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Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants .
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They were predominantly small peasant economies, with scarcely any industry.
■ NOUN
commune
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Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune .
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At its centre stood the peasant commune , they believed, had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property.
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During the 1860s and 70s the populists attributed to the primitive peasant commune all the characteristics of a latent socialist order.
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Chicherin stopped writing private memoranda and started a debate on the peasant commune .
community
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Among the civilian victims have been members of peasant communities and rural cooperatives who refused to join or support Sendero Luminoso.
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It encouraged the incorporation of the peasant community into the wider society, because it operated through the market.
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Most of the victims have come from towns and isolated peasant communities in remote rural areas.
economy
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The peasant economy provides a reserve of cheap labour for capitalism and so contributes to capital accumulation.
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Such critical features of the peasant economy as horse-ownership showed a disastrous drop during the late nineteenth century.
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They were predominantly small peasant economies , with scarcely any industry.
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The polyptych evidence shows that the peasant economy was well able to sustain these royal demands.
family
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The resettlement programme for peasant families lags far behind its targets.
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The experience of peasant families was repeated by sending daughters into similar social situations in domestic service and piecework.
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Inequalities between patron and client, peasant families and land-owning families and men and women, therefore, continue.
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He came from a peasant family and was born near the city of Pyongyang in 1912.
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An assignment to cover a strange event in a peasant family changes her life.
farmer
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Part is earmarked for transfer to the impoverished peasant farmers living in the areas concerned.
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Niyonzima, a 40-year old peasant farmer , is about to become the first local tried for crimes against humanity.
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In the strict hierarchy of the Catalan countryside these peasant farmer families almost ranked as a petty nobility.
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Last June, a force of state police killed 17 unarmed peasant farmers on their way to a protest rally.
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Mrs Villemin is the wife of a peasant farmer .
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Growers -- mostly peasant farmers -- planted agave in the late 1980s, then waited seven years for their crop to mature.
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This depended on the creation of a large body of enterprising peasant farmers growing essentially cash crops.
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I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.
girl
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As he restarted the record, the door of the room opened and a young Annamese peasant girl entered.
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But when they first meet, as children, she is a destitute peasant girl called Firecrackers.
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I looked like one of those peasant girls in the old folk-tales, the ones who never get to the ball.
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She and Sister Colleta are both about four feet eleven and probably they are peasant girls from villages.
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The Plot An orphaned peasant girl was given a home by a kindly old woman who could not see very well.
rebellion
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Mindful, perhaps, of the events of 1801 and 1825, he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion .
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One of those writs last used in peasant rebellions in the 1400s.
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His master explanatory variable is market capitalism and his dependent variable is peasant rebellion .
revolt
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This was the best-known and recorded peasant revolt in Soviet history, yet its practical achievements were nil.
society
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It is in peasant society that one sees some of the main gainers from the surplus of land.
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Nor could peasant society be kept unchanged over 250 years.
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The most important and uncontrollable factor in this peasant society occurs then in a woman's body.
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In a peasant society , these are the significant moments of human life and the main phases and aspects of agriculture.
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In some other respects it relied on centuries of evolution of peasant society .
woman
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By travelling with him we are reversing the process adopted with our peasant woman in the Smolensk guberniia.
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An old peasant woman finds the babies, cares for them, and begins searching for the true parents.
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She argues that the diplomatic wife is as much a victim of male-dominated foreign policy as the peasant woman farmer.
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Over a period of just months I was witness to the rapid transformation of a group of peasant women into industrial workers.
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If you can find a gnarled peasant woman making shabby artefacts from twigs, point your readers in her direction.
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If Goethe could live with a peasant woman , then I could marry Sonya.
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There he stands crooked, pushed forwards with the chair legs sticking out behind, like an old peasant woman carrying firewood.
■ VERB
lead
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Moreover in many areas the assault upon the nobility was led by middle peasants whose family farms were anything but capitalist.
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They bypassed the Stalinists and led the peasants and workers to the establishment of a workers state.
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Listen: there go the goats, the faint arrhythmia of the bells on their collars, led by the white-clad peasant .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The economic crisis caused famine, epidemics, and peasant revolt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In response peasants cultivate bulkier but less nutritious crops, such as cassava.
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It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture, no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.
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Lords and peasants shared attitudes and beliefs.
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Moreover, in the absence of any evidence of impending upheaval, individual peasants were wary of risking involvement in seditious talk.
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Some of the wealthier peasants would probably have held some enclosed freehold fields.
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The government asked them, like the peasants, to make superhuman efforts.
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Topics will include land problems, development projects, health and education, women's groups, peasant cooperatives and democratic congresses.
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Would not Gandhi come to hear their grievances? the peasant asked.