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(in Japan) A white-collar male business person.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The term salaryman refers exclusively to males, and for females the term career woman is used.
  • They have to be a parody of the kind of salaryman concerns you see in things like Shima Kôsaku.
  • After graduating college, he became a "salaryman" at Maruzen Oil Co., the predecessor to Cosmo Oil Co.
  • It's been the sarariman, or "salaryman", for years and years.
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