締付
English translation: tightening
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| 04:11 Jan 12, 2011 |
| Japanese to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / survey | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Yasutomo Kanazawa Japan Local time: 19:18 | ||||||
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| 4 | squeeze |
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| 3 | tightening |
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| 3 | control |
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| 3 | pressure (as in "put pressure on") |
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tightening Explanation: でどうでしょうか？ http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/締付 締付 【名詞】 tightening 何かをよりきつくする行為 (the act of making something tighter) the tightening of economic controls 経済統制の引き締め |
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15 mins confidence:
control Explanation: Another definition for 締付 is "control." Not knowing the context in detail, perhaps this is about enforcing control(s). |
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squeeze Explanation: See: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/why-remote... |
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1 hr confidence:
pressure (as in "put pressure on") Explanation: It depends on the context (unusual, right? ;)), but the first translation that popped into my head after seeing this was "Every time the top (top management perhaps?) changes, they force us to put more pressure on the customer (customers?)" |
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