あまくだり

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of あまくだり – see the following entry.

【天下り】 [noun] descent to earth from heaven [noun] the entity making such a visit: an avatar [noun] in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement (also spelled 天下り): a kind of revolving door syndrome Alternative spellings 天降り, 天降

(This term, あまくだり (amakudari), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)