Nihoner
表層形
飼い殺し
カイゴロシ
名詞

飼い殺し (カイゴロシ)

Kaigoroshi · かいごろし — keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills

飼い殺し in rōmaji: kaigoroshi.

名詞 普通名詞 一般 *
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Updated: 2026年8月12日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
飼い殺し
読み (Reading)
カイゴロシ
品詞 (POS)
名詞・普通名詞・一般・*
活用型 (Conj. Type)
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活用形 (Conj. Form)
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表記 (Orthography)
飼い殺し
読み・基本形
カイゴロシ
表記・基本形
飼い殺し
見出し語の読み
カイゴロシ
💡 English Meaning

飼い殺し means “keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills” — full definition & examples →

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The surface form (飼い殺し) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (飼い殺し) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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The reading shows the pronunciation in hiragana or katakana as recorded by UniDic. For kanji entries this is the standard reading of this specific surface form — which may differ from other readings of the same kanji.
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