Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A network of businesses that own stakes in one another as a means of mutual security, especially in Japan, and usually including large manufacturers and their suppliers of raw materials and components.
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- noun A set of
Japanese companies withinterlocking business relationships andshareholdings .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The keiretsu are the key to understanding the jimusho system, but unfortunately, this is also the most oblique characteristic of the field to measure and observe.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two 2010
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As one Japanese diplomat put it rather candidly, "Japan is creating an exclusive Japanese market in which Asia Pacific nations are incorporated into the so-called keiretsu [financial-industrial bloc] system."
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Japan's unique form of capitalism, based as it is on huge industrial groups called keiretsu, is beginning to fade.
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The Japanese call it keiretsu; the Koreans say chaebol; the Russian word is semibankirshchina; and the Americans label the cozy arrangement among industrialists, bankers and government officials crony capitalism.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Japanese call it keiretsu; the Koreans say chaebol; the Russian word is semibankirshchina; and the Americans label the cozy arrangement among industrialists, bankers and government officials crony capitalism.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Japanese call it keiretsu; the Koreans say chaebol; the Russian word is semibankirshchina; and the Americans label the cozy arrangement among industrialists, bankers and government officials crony capitalism.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Japanese call it keiretsu; the Koreans say chaebol; the Russian word is semibankirshchina; and the Americans label the cozy arrangement among industrialists, bankers and government officials crony capitalism.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The result is an extended organization — an integrated value chain — known as a keiretsu.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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A keiretsu is a Japanese industrial grouping that involves long-term relationships and interlocking ownership.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
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The result is an extended organization — an integrated value chain — known as a keiretsu.
Managing Strategic Relationships Leonard Greenhalgh 2001
cydonian commented on the word keiretsu
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September 6, 2007
jrome commented on the word keiretsu
"It was funded in part by Paul Allen, the co founder of Microsoft who appears to be creating a small keiretsu of semantic Web start-ups." - http://tinyurl.com/23rc6v
October 23, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word keiretsu
"All apartments in Paris that you would long to live in belong to the domaine privé. This is to say not that they all belong to the city government but that they can be obtained only through membership in one or another of the political or literary or fashionable keiretsus that dominate Paris."
-- Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik, p 23
September 23, 2008