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(sumo) The second highest division in sumo wrestling, below makuuchi and above makushita; rikishi at this point receive a salary..
Jesse won promotion into what is called the juryo division of sumo and to the title of “sekitori” on the basis of his showing at the New Year’s Sumo Tournament in Tokyo, where he compiled a respectable 5-2 showing, including wins over two former juryos.
The monthly pay for a yokozuna in the mid-1970s was only ¥373,000, while an ozeki received ¥294,700; a sekiwake or komusubi, ¥200,300; a maegashira, ¥137, 600; and a juryo, ¥114,500.
Yokozuna fight each other at the end of the tournament. Lower-division wrestlers fight a total of seven matches per tournament; juryo and makuuchi fight fifteen.
Use juryo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Juryo means (sumo) The second highest division in sumo wrestling, below makuuchi and above makushita; rikishi at this point receive a salary..
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Jesse won promotion into what is called the juryo division of sumo and to the title of “sekitori” on the basis of his showing at the New Year’s Sumo Tournament in Tokyo, where he compiled a respectable 5-2 showing, including wins over two former juryos.
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