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iron rice bowls

iron rice bowls is the plural of iron rice bowl.

Meaning of iron rice bowl

Noun

iron rice bowl (plural iron rice bowls)

  1. A guaranteed state job in China that lasts until retirement and pays a pension until death.
    • Large or small, a state enterprise took care of all the needs of its workers and dependents, providing housing, schools, and health facilities at minimal cost - the so-called "iron rice bowl" which the economic mobilizers said now had to be 'smashed'.2006, John Gittings, “Economics in Command: The modernization of China”, in The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market

Questions about iron rice bowls

What is iron rice bowls the plural of?
Iron rice bowls is the plural of iron rice bowl.

Words near iron rice bowls in the dictionary

  1. iron pyrites
  2. Iron Range
  3. iron ration
  4. iron rations
  5. iron rice bowl
  6. iron rice bowls
  7. iron ring
  8. iron rings
  9. iron road
  10. iron roads
  11. iron saffron

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