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Meaning of keiretsu | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
keɪˈɹɛtsu

Definitions

A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings.

Equivalents

Français keiretsu

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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