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分業 (bungyou) Japanese meaning: division of labor | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 分業する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 分ぶん 業ぎょう する 分ぶん 業ぎょう しない Polite 分ぶん 業ぎょう します 分ぶん 業ぎょう しません Past polite 分ぶん 業ぎょう しました 分ぶん 業ぎょう しませんでした Past 分ぶん 業ぎょう した 分ぶん 業ぎょう しなかった Te-form 分ぶん 業ぎょう して 分ぶん 業ぎょう しないで Desire 分ぶん 業ぎょう したい 分ぶん 業ぎょう したくない Potential 分ぶん 業ぎょう できる 分ぶん 業ぎょう できない Passive 分ぶん 業ぎょう される 分ぶん 業ぎょう されない Causative 分ぶん 業ぎょう させる 分ぶん 業ぎょう させない Causative passive 分ぶん 業ぎょう させられる 分ぶん 業ぎょう させられない Volitional 分ぶん 業ぎょう しよう Polite volitional 分ぶん 業ぎょう しましょう Imperative 分ぶん 業ぎょう しろ 分ぶん 業ぎょう するな Conditional 分ぶん 業ぎょう すれば 分ぶん 業ぎょう しなければ Tara conditional 分ぶん 業ぎょう したら 分ぶん 業ぎょう しなかったら
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業ぎょう
し
て
いる
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My spouse and I divide the housework between us.
In this factory, work is increasingly divided by production process.
Thanks to dividing the work into smaller roles, we met the deadline.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 と 分ぶん 業ぎょう する to divide the work with someone
I divided the work with my colleague and finished it quickly.
〈 事こと 〉 を 分ぶん 業ぎょう する to split a task up among people
At the factory, the work is divided into several stages.
分ぶん 業ぎょう 体たい 制せい a division-of-labor system
This company has a well-organized division-of-labor system.
Kanji 分 part, minute of time, segment 業 business, vocation, arts Transitive / intransitive 分業 is used both transitively and intransitively: transitively, as in 「仕事を分業する」 (to divide up the work), and intransitively, as in 「二人で分業する」 (to work by dividing roles between two people).
Related words 分担 focuses on who is assigned which part of a task, while 分業 emphasizes an overall system of divided, specialized roles.
専門化 refers to specialization in a general sense, whereas 分業 specifically describes specialization achieved by splitting work among different people or processes.
協業 means working together cooperatively, while 分業 is about splitting roles apart, though the two often occur together in an organization.
分業 is a more formal, often economic term for dividing labor by specialization, whereas 手分け is the everyday word for splitting a group to get a job done faster.
Word family separation of medical and dispensary practice; separation of prescribing and dispensing
international division of labor; international specialization
vertical international specialization
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound written with 分, associated with dividing, and 業, associated with work or business. The spelling transparently reflects the meaning 'dividing work.'
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平へい
分ぶん
業ぎょう
horizontal specialization
division of labor by gender role
