Meaning

1 senses
  1. An employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours yet has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy.

    Salaryman

    сарарима́нsararimán

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom dreamt he was a salaryman in Tokyo.

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  2. The salaryman took hot showers to his heart's content.

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  3. The salaryman proposed to the director's daughter, but he was rejected.

    ruСаларимен предложил дочери директора выйти за него замуж, но получил отказ.

    deDer Angestellte machte der Tochter des Direktors einen Heiratsantrag, wurde aber abgewiesen.

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  4. The salaryman went to live quietly in a remote area in order to atone for his sins.

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  5. Me? I'm a plain old salaryman.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a salaried worker in Japan or South Korea:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a salaried worker in Japan or South Korea:

Origin

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese サラリーマン (sararīman), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese サラリーマン (sararīman), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from salary + man.

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Forms

plural: salarymen
Singularsalaryman
Pluralsalarymen

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Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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