| 单词 | office lady |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoffice lady office lady n. [after Japanese ofisu redii (1964) < ofisu (1908; < English office n.) + redii (1878; < English lady n.); compare salary man n. at salary n. Compounds 1a] (in Japan) a young, usually unmarried, woman working in an office, esp. in a secretarial or relatively menial position; abbreviated OL (OL n. at O n.1 Initialisms 1). ΚΠ 1973 Japan Interpreter 8 240 The new crop of shokuba no hana (‘office flowers’) appears regularly every spring to replace older OL (‘office ladies’) being forced out at the ripe old age of twenty-five or twenty-six. 1993 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 9/7 Now, the only customers in the local amusement park are a few ‘salarymen’ squiring their ‘office ladies’ round the rides. 2008 E. Roberts et al. Live & Work in Japan (ed. 3) 186 The stereotype of the working woman in Japan remains the ‘OL’ or office lady, employed to clean, serve tea, and look pretty in a uniform. < as lemmas |
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