Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Japanese conglomerate, especially a powerful family-controlled monopoly before World War II.
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- noun economics
Japanese term for ‘moneyclique ’ orconglomerate , and sometimes used in the United States to refer to any largecorporation .
Etymologies
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Korea, which was a Japanese colony for most of the first half of this century, took the family-network practice from Japan, where it was called zaibatsu until the holding companies were disbanded by General MacArthur at the end of World War II.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Korea, which was a Japanese colony for most of the first half of this century, took the family-network practice from Japan, where it was called zaibatsu until the holding companies were disbanded by General MacArthur at the end of World War II.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Korea, which was a Japanese colony for most of the first half of this century, took the family-network practice from Japan, where it was called zaibatsu until the holding companies were disbanded by General MacArthur at the end of World War II.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Korea, which was a Japanese colony for most of the first half of this century, took the family-network practice from Japan, where it was called zaibatsu until the holding companies were disbanded by General MacArthur at the end of World War II.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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General Electric CFO: 'Best Earnings Outlook In The Last 10 Years' NRC: Glossary -- International Nuclear Regulators Association INRA 1GTIJPDossNxN2o7ox13pNFpdqmJf0y5x1XB%2FqXeNvEGldUpysBKd827PbsmgTxY7ss64c%2BXioEdKPHo6dEYcmuGPkGMeh8o Obama Administration, State Officials Expected To Give Banks New Mortgage Terms zaibatsu
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The company is one of the four original Japanese "zaibatsu", family-controlled giant holding companies, known as "keiretsu" after their break-ups after the war.
Steve Parker: Mitsubishi Motors: Just Who Are They, Anyway? 2010
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Now, however, the Vitter amendment would break down the 1970 restrictions which, as President Nixon noted at the time, protected the US system from the anti-market practices inherent in Japan's "zaibatsu" style banking structure.
SAFER: The Vitter Amendment Breaches the Banking/Commerce Barrier 2010
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Japan failed to break the economic stranglehold of the "zaibatsu", the family owned monopoly conglomerates that dominated the pre-war Japanese economy.
ANC Today 2004
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We have already quoted Selden as saying that the US occupation authorities in Japan failed to break the economic stranglehold of the "zaibatsu", the family owned monopoly conglomerates that dominated the pre-war Japanese economy.
ANC Today 2004
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Nobusuke Kishi, a Japanese commerce-ministry bureaucrat, was appointed to head the industrial program in Manchuria, in 1936, and, with the collaboration of a new crop of the Japanese conglomerates known as zaibatsu, he instituted a policy of forced industrial development based on the exploitation of the local population.
Techno-Fascism Comes to America Kyle Chayka 2025
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