keiretsu
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 系列 (keiretsu, literally “system, series”), from Middle Chinese 繫 (ɣèj, “attached”) + 列 (ljet, “set, row”) (compare Mandarin 系列 (xìliè, “series, set”)).
Noun
keiretsu (plural keiretsus or keiretsu)
- 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:
- 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.
See also
Japanese
Romanization
keiretsu