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freeters

freeters is the plural of freeter.

Meaning of freeter

Noun

freeter (plural freeters)

  1. In Japan, a young person (typically between the ages of 15-34) who lacks full-time employment (excluding housewives and students), especially through lack of interest in a career.
    • The average freeter lives at home, earns about $1,000 a month, and stays in a job about nine months, according to surveys conducted by the Recruit Corporation, Japan's largest job placement company. Recruit estimates that 3.4 million Japanese, aged 19 to 30, are freeters, working part time or at...2001 October 16, James Brooke, “Young Japanese Breaking Old Salaryman's Bonds”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about freeters

What is freeters the plural of?
Freeters is the plural of freeter.

Words near freeters in the dictionary

  1. freetails
  2. freetard
  3. freetards
  4. freetekno
  5. freeter
  6. freeters
  7. freeth
  8. freethinker
  9. freethinkers
  10. freethinking
  11. freethinkings

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