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Japanese to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Naikei Wong Local time: 02:50 | ||||||
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3 +6 | manipulate, dominate, control, be domineering |
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manipulate, dominate, control, be domineering Explanation: This term seems poorly explained despite whatever attempts to explain it on the Internet... Given your particular context, I think the word is being used in a negative way. The first things I can think of are: manipulate, dominate, control, tyrannize Alternative: be domineering (mostly used as an adj.) FYI: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/web/iuj_section.cfm?item=090506 “Power Harassment” - ?Definition and Examples Definition:? The use of the power differential between teachers and students in an educational setting to receive favors not voluntarily offered.? Leveraging power inherent in manager-subordinate working relations to require services or favors not consistent with the normal work environment. Example: Faculty (or Manager) insisting (not allowing for the right of refusal) that their supervisees (or staff subordinates) provide transportation to stations or restaurants explicitly or implicitly implying that thesis or course grading (or work reviews) could be jeopardized. CSR in the Workplace | Human Rights - NOMURAPower harassment occurs when a person in a position of power misuses authority in the workplace to harass or coerce a co-worker. As with sexual harassment, ... www.nomuraholdings.com/csr/humanrights/education.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages From Glova: http://trans.glova.jp/index.php 宇宙を仕切る This universe is governed. 経済を仕切る manage economic 取引を仕切る lead the sale 売却を仕切る engineer the sale 孤児院を仕切る mark the confines of the asylum ユーロ供給を仕切る control the euro supply グリンゴ供給を仕切る control the gringo supply 後継者グリンゴ供給を仕切るグリンゴスパン氏 successors Mr. Gringspan, who controls the gringo supply Cambrdige Adv. Learner's Dict.: tyrannize, UK USUALLY tyrannise /"[email protected]/ verb [T] to treat someone cruelly, controlling everything that they do: He was one of those school bullies who tyrannized the whole playground. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2006-08-04 19:07:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The "term" I mentioned in the beginning refers to "power harassment". Cheers |
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