Noun: freeter
| Singular | freeter |
| Plural | freeters |
Sample Sentences
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The average freeter lives at home, earns about $1,000 a month, and stays in a job about nine months, according to surveys conducted by the Recruit Corporation, Japan's largest job placement company. Recruit estimates that 3.4 million Japanese, aged 19 to 30, are freeters, working part time or at temporary jobs. [2001 October 16, James Brooke, “Young Japanese Breaking Old Salaryman's Bonds”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like freeter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese フリーター (furītā), possibly from English free and German Arbeiter (“labourer”). See: English Nouns '
free'.