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window sitters

window sitters is the plural of window sitter.

Meaning of window sitter

Noun

window sitter (plural window sitters)

  1. (Japan) An employee who is given a desk job with no real responsibilities, often by a window, to make them feel excluded and encourage them to quit voluntarily.

Questions about window sitters

What is window sitters the plural of?
Window sitters is the plural of window sitter.

Words near window sitters in the dictionary

  1. window seats
  2. window shopping
  3. window sill
  4. window sills
  5. window sitter
  6. window sitters
  7. window stool
  8. window stools
  9. window swallow
  10. window swallows
  11. window system

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Adapted from Wiktionary: window sitters (page history and authors); window sitter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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