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Definition 2024

zaibatsu

zaibatsu

English

Noun

zaibatsu ‎(plural zaibatsus or zaibatsu)

(economics) Japanese term for ‘money clique’ or conglomerate, and sometimes used in the United States to refer to any large corporation.

Translations

a Japanese conglomerate (or South Korean)

Chinese:
Mandarin: 財閥 (zh), 财阀 (zh) ‎(cáifá) (Japanese or South Korean)
Estonian: zaibatsu (et)
French: zaibatsu (fr) m
German: Zaibatsu n

Japanese: 財閥 ‎(ざいばつ, zaibatsu) (Japanese or South Korean)
Korean: 재벌 (ko) ‎(jaebeol) (財閥 (ko)) (Japanese or South Korean)
Russian: дзайба́цу (ru) m ‎(dzajbácu)

See also

chaebol (from the Korean equivalent)

Japanese

Romanization

zaibatsu

rōmaji reading of ざいばつ