All 3 Uses
fluctuate
in
The Communist Manifesto
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- These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.†
- The growing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating.†
*fluctuating = alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity
- In countries where modern civilisation has become fully developed, a new class of petty bourgeois has been formed, fluctuating between proletariat and bourgeoisie and ever renewing itself as a supplementary part of bourgeois society.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(fluctuate) to alternately increase and decrease in quantity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)