karoshi
/kəˈɹəʊʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Death, such as from heart attack or stroke, brought on by overwork or job-related stress.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner."
- "Second, we discuss the problem of karoshi, which is unique to Japan. Karoshi has become an increasingly serious problem."
- "[…] I am a workaholic. […] The Japanese have a word for the problem: karōshi. It means “death from overwork.”"
- "In Japan there is a word for the consequences of extreme busyness: karoshi, which means 'death from overwork'. Karoshi happens when chronic fatigue, stemming from long hours and persistent stress, leads to stroke and heart disease. For most of us, the results of a busyness-induced allostatic load are much less dramatic, but still pretty bad: being 'always on' has been linked to reductions in performance, reduced memory, and increased health risks of all kinds: cardiovascular disease, reduced immune system performance and an earlier death. One expert in the US approximated that 60-90 per cent of all visits to the doctor were stress related."
- "Since the 1980s, labor lawyers and citizens groups have been pushing for changes to the law to recognize karoshi as a serious social issue."
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