salaryman
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salaryman
- /ˈsæl.əɹ.i.mæn/
Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
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.
noun salarymen
- 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.
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Talk about this word "salaryman." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/salaryman. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. salaryman. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/salaryman "salaryman." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/salaryman.Cite this
@misc{salaryman_2026,
title = {salaryman},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salaryman},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
