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keiretsu en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /keɪˈɹɛtsu/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings.
   • 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. 2011 August 1, Steve Clemons, “China's Internal Pluralism Is Nothing to Cheer About”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Coordinates

zaibatsu · chaebol · combine · supercorporation · megacorporation · conglomeration · conglomerate

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