🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 0 COCA: 34966

salaryman

noun

sal·​a·​ry·​man ˈsal-rē-ˌman How to pronounce salaryman (audio)
ˈsa-lə-
: a Japanese white-collar businessman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The owner and chef, Yuji Nonaka, 57, quit his salaryman job and started his restaurant 14 years ago with his wife, Kiyomi Nonaka, 50. Kiyomi discovered her love for Hawaii -- particularly hula dancing -- during a work trip as an 18-year-old. Kathleen Benoza, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022 The 48-year-old salaryman started fishing as a hobby during the pandemic. Hanako Lowry, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021 Following Magnetic Rose was the entirely different and eerily upbeat Stink Bomb, which dealt with a salaryman in a laboratory inadvertently letting loose a devastating biological weapon. Ollie Barder, Forbes, 21 June 2021 Anyone who has even a passing interest in Japan knows this, has seen the photographs of black-suited salarymen having picnic lunches in an incongruously pink landscape, like something out of a child’s fantasy bedroom. New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020 For decades the government pushed industrial growth, so the country’s cities filled up with drab business hotels that catered to armies of salarymen. The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019 Tokyo is among several cities with helplines and websites that try to reach shut-ins, who range from teenage school dropouts to salarymen who have been sacked. The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019 Japan was once renowned for the mutual loyalty of its companies and salarymen, who could plausibly aspire to lifetime employment at a single firm. Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019 The model of the salaryman who enjoys a job for life has broken down. The Economist, 27 July 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Japanese sararī-man, from English salary + man

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of salaryman was in 1962

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime