salaryman
An employee, a workerAn employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours yet has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy.
» Tom dreamt he was a salaryman in Tokyo.
Meaning
1 sensesAn 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 sentencesTom dreamt he was a salaryman in Tokyo.
The salaryman took hot showers to his heart's content.
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.
The salaryman went to live quietly in a remote area in order to atone for his sins.
Me? I'm a plain old salaryman.
Translations
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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: salarymenWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular