天下り

Japanese
Kanji in this term
天 下
あま
Grade: 1		 くだ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 天 (ama, “heaven, heavens”) +‎ 下り (kudari, “the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of verb 下る kudaru, “to descend, to come down””).[1][2]

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Noun

天下り (hiragana あまくだり, rōmaji amakudari)

  1. descent to earth from heaven
  2. the entity making such a visit: an avatar
  3. in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement (also spelled 天下り): a kind of revolving door syndrome

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References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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