Word of the Day:
zaibatsu
What It Means
A large business conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan, generally controlled by a single family or individual.
Any large corporation.
Near-synonyms: megacorporation, supercorporation
Zaibatsu in Context
“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).”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Japanese 財閥(ざいばつ) (zaibatsu), coined from Middle Chinese 財 (d͡zoj, “wealth”) + 閥 (bjot, “powerful family”).
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