luftgeschaeft

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A meaningless or unproductive job, which contributes little or no value to society.
    — The economic situation of the Jewish people in the diaspora is an inverted pyramid. The normal situation is when the majority is productive, a proletariat in professions like agriculture and industry, and only a minority is bourgeois, in unproductive trades like banking and commerce. Most of the Jewish people work in luftgeschaeft.

词形变化

luftgeschaeft plural luftgeschaefts plural

词源

From Yiddish לופֿט געשעפֿט (luft gesheft), from German Luftgeschäft, from Luft (“air”) + Geschäft (“business”); with spelling influenced by the orthography of the German term.
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