salaryman

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈsæl.əɹ.i.mæn/

Definition of salaryman

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.
    “In this way, the salaryman was both a progressive social stratum and an intellectual class.”
    “2017 May 30, NTT Solmare, Moe! Ninja Girls, Season 6 Chapter 2, iOS and Android ― Yamabuki: “Okay... *Sigh*... I thought l'd get to go home and sleep after taking the Principal back...but here I am, still at it, like an overworked salaryman!” ― John: “What? Salaryman?””

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Etymology

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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7-letter words

1 word

6-letter words

11 words

5-letter words

30 words

4-letter words

41 words

3-letter words

33 words

2-letter words

12 words

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