常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

salaryman

salarymanが和製英語と言われたのは過去の話のようです(cf. salaried man)。ただし単なる「会社員」という意味ではありません。英和辞典にはa man who works in an office, often for many hours each day, and receives a salary as payment, especially in Japanとありました(LDOCE)。for many hours each dayとin Japanの部分にかなり含みがありますね。(Koyamamoto)

Salarymen out of pocket as average allowance sinks to lowest level since '82
Pocket money carried by salarymen is at its lowest level since 1982, according to a report released by Shinsei Bank.
The Thirty Year White Paper on Salaryman Pocket Money Survey reveals that the average male salaried worker gets an allowance — usually allocated by his wife— of \39,756 per month, about half of the \77,725 they were receiving at the height of the bubble economy in the 1980s.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120927f2.html