あまくだり

Japanese

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

[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, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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