luftgeschaeft
/ˈlʌftɡəˌʃɛft/
luftgeschaeft noun: a meaningless or unproductive job, which contributes little or no value to society.
Noun
luftgeschaeft (plural luftgeschaeft or luftgeschaefts)
- A meaningless or unproductive job, which contributes little or no value to society.
- The economic situation of the Jewish people in the diaspora is an inverted pyramid. The normal situation is when the majority is productive, a proletariat in professions like agriculture and industry, and only a minority is bourgeois, in unproductive trades like banking and commerce. Most of the...1955, Dov Ber Borochov, To the Question of Zion and Territory, pages 41-42
- What happened in the United States of America was essentially the result of all the luftgeschaefts run by financial wizard luftmenschen (air people) who turned money into paper and then supposedly back into even more money, siphoning off outrageous profits in the process. When the music stopped...2010, David E. Y. Sarna, History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff, page 2
Examples of luftgeschaeft in a sentence
- Most of the Jewish people work in luftgeschaeft.1955, Dov Ber Borochov, To the Question of Zion and Territory, pages 41-42:
- From an ideological perspective, rural productive life was glorified, while the urban luftgeschaeft, non-productive livelihoods such as commerce, was constantly criticized.2011, Hizky Shoham, “Of Other Cinematic Spaces: Urban Zionism in Early Hebrew Cinema”, in Israel Studies Review, page 131:
Forms of luftgeschaeft
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| plural | luftgeschaefts |
Origin of luftgeschaeft
From Yiddish לופֿט געשעפֿט (luft gesheft), from German Luftgeschäft, from Luft (“air”) + Geschäft (“business”); with spelling influenced by the orthography of the German term.
Questions about luftgeschaeft
- What does luftgeschaeft mean?
- Luftgeschaeft means a meaningless or unproductive job, which contributes little or no value to society.
- How do you use luftgeschaeft in a sentence?
- Most of the Jewish people work in luftgeschaeft.
- What part of speech is luftgeschaeft?
- Luftgeschaeft is a noun.
- How do you pronounce luftgeschaeft?
- Luftgeschaeft is pronounced /ˈlʌftɡəˌʃɛft/.
- What is the plural of luftgeschaeft?
- The plural of luftgeschaeft is luftgeschaeft.
Words near luftgeschaeft in the dictionary
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