He wondered briefly what it would be like, working all your life for one zaibatsu. Company housing, company hymn, company funeral.
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Zaibatsu
//zaɪˈbætsuː//
Synonyms for "zaibatsu" (2 found)
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Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
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12 translations across 11 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 財閥 /财阀 noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Estonian
1 entries- zaibatsu noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Finnish
1 entries- zaibatsu noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
French
1 entries- zaibatsu noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
German
1 entries- Zaibatsu noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Japanese
1 entries- 財閥 noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Korean
2 entries- 자이바쓰 noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
- 재벌 noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Polish
1 entries- zaibatsu noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Portuguese
1 entries- zaibatsu noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Russian
1 entries- дзайба́цу noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tài phiệt noun (a Japanese conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan)
Sample sentences
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At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II).
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Near-synonyms: megacorporation, supercorporation
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