noun
- a white-collar office worker in Japan, typically a male employee of a large corporation
Usage: Japanese business culture
Examples
- The typical salaryman works long hours and rarely takes vacation days.
- After graduation, he became a salaryman at a major electronics company in Tokyo.
- Many salarymen commute by train to downtown offices every morning.
- The salaryman culture emphasizes loyalty to one’s company above personal interests.
- She wrote a book about the stress faced by modern salarymen in Japan.
- The restaurant was full of salarymen having their lunch break.