salaryman
Americannoun
plural
salarymennoun
Etymology
Origin of salaryman
Example Sentences
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The diverse characters of the show - which include a salaryman, a migrant factory worker and a cryptocurrency scammer - are drawn from figures many South Koreans would find familiar.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
For Nakamura, the salaryman, the issue highlighted the deepening pain for single-income Japanese households such as his own.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2022
At a ceremony at a local temple, he met Sachiko, a thirty-year-old woman with two young children, a salaryman husband who was never around, and an electric, curious mind.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019
No self-respecting salaryman of the mid-2000s was without a BlackBerry, and the basic idea can trace its ancestry back at least as far as the hand-held personal digital assistants of the 1990s.
From Economist • Feb. 1, 2017
Using my broken Japanese, I learned that my dance partner was a salaryman by day, slaving away at one of those soul-sucking Japanese office jobs.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2014
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