"commoner" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who is not of a noble rank or high social class. For example: "The commoner had to work long days just to make ends meet."
So, under a system of common property, each commoner has an incentive to get as much as possible from the land as quickly as possible, since the benefits of doing this are in the short-term concentrated and assured, while the long-term benefits of self-restraint are uncertain and diffused.
The Royals focuses on a commoner who lands a prince.
Kate Middleton will be the first commoner to marry a prince in close proximity to the throne in more than 350 years, since Anne Hyde wed the Duke of York, later James II, in 1660.
As a state-school educated, regionally-accented, mackintosh-wearing commoner he personified the break with the old elite.
The NODE reflects an earlier, and commoner, tradition: like Dr Johnson's dictionary (though even he covered about 180 years of the language), and most modern rivals, its essence is the language of today.
He yearned for popular approval, even announcing that he met his second wife, a commoner, at Café Riche.The hapless king might also have met the man there who would eventually depose him.
Now a commoner gripe at Glaxo's vast new R&D centre in Stevenage in Britain is that discovering a "blockbuster" for such a big firm will not make a researcher rich, as it would at a small company that pays its brains with shares.Most of Glaxo's main rivals companies such as Novartis, Hoechst Marion Roussel and SmithKline Beecham have also bought other firms and cut costs.
Such clauses have since become commoner in emerging markets, and are due to become standard in Europe as part of the European Stability Mechanism, a planned replacement for the euro zone's current bail-out fund.The holdouts are a motley crew.
The sole, tiny exception is the United Arab Emirates, where the current minister of the interior happens to be a commoner, but more by accident than by egalitarian design.The Gulf's ruling families are big.
This was the first ceremonial funeral (a status almost indistinguishable from a state one) for any Briton since the queen mother, in 2002, and of any commoner since Churchill.
And just as well, because cartels look as if they are more sophisticated and commoner than anyone thought.That, at least, may be what emerges from raids Britain's antitrust enforcer, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), conducted towards the end of last month on the country's four large supermarkets.
