English Dictionary

casual

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkaʒuəl/

名詞

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(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.

日本語の意味

臨時労働者（常勤ではなく、必要に応じて雇用される労働者）

The restaurant hired a casual to cover the busy weekend shifts.

そのレストランは忙しい週末のシフトを補うために臨時雇用者を雇った。

意味（1）

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.

意味（2）

A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.

意味（3）

(UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).

At 15, he became a casual: one of the label-wearing, wedge-flicking, swaggering hooligan peacock boys who dominated the north-west when I was growing up. Casuals were working-class lads (called Perry boys in Manchester) who loved football, fighting and brilliant sportswear.

意味（4）

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

意味（5）

(video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.

The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it.

意味（6）

(fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.

Casuals outnumbered regulars in the art-house audience two to one.

意味（7）

(Britain, dated) A tramp.

I was a boy in 1922 or 1923, when buses first started to run between the village and the town; there were tramps, casuals as they were called; the whole pattern of my boyhood was knit into a very loaded atmosphere of human character.

意味（8）

Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.

Next spring you’ll see more women than ever wearing “casuals” and “flats,” the shoes with the wedge heels or no heels at all.

casuals （ plural ）