"window sitter" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: window sitters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} window sitter (plural window sitters)
  1. (Japan) An employee who is given a desk job with no real responsibilities, often by a window, to make them feel excluded and encourage them to quit voluntarily. Tags: Japan
    Sense id: en-window_sitter-en-noun-0QK2OiXH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Japanese English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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