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天下り

天下り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
天	下
あま Grade: 1	くだ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Noun

天下り ‎(hiragana あまくだり, romaji amakudari)

in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement