keiretsu

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Japanese 系列(けいれつ) (keiretsu, literally system, series), from Middle Chinese (ɣèj, attached) +‎ (ljet, set, row) (compare Mandarin 系列 (xìliè, series, set)).

Noun[edit]

keiretsu (plural keiretsus or keiretsu)

  1. A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings.
    • 2011 August 1, Steve Clemons, “China's Internal Pluralism Is Nothing to Cheer About”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      Japan's keiretsu—or families of firms in large scratch-each-other's back networks—supported this or that faction in the LDP, producing a highly successful, structurally corrupt model of economic development that showed remarkable resilience through Japan's high growth economic period.

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Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

keiretsu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of けいれつ