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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

リストラする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

corporate restructuring

abbreviation

Abbreviation of リストラクチュアリング. Refers to broad corporate reorganization, not limited to layoffs.

Commonly used in everyday Japanese to mean job cuts or workforce reduction, often as a euphemism.

〈会かい社しゃ〉がリストラを行おこなうfor a company to carry out restructuring/layoffs
その会かい社しゃは不ふ況きょうで大だい規き模ぼなリストラを行おこなった。
The company carried out large-scale layoffs due to the recession.
リストラされるto be laid off
父ちちは去きょ年ねんリストラされて今いまは転てん職しょく活かつ動どうをしている。
My father was laid off last year and is now job-hunting.
リストラの対たい象しょうになるto become a target for layoffs
業ぎょう績せきが悪あっ化かした部ぶ署しょの社しゃ員いんがリストラの対たい象しょうになった。
Employees in the department with declining performance became targets for layoffs.
リストラに遭あうto be hit by layoffs
多おおくの中ちゅう高こう年ねん社しゃ員いんがリストラに遭あった。
Many middle-aged and older employees were hit by the layoffs.

リストラクチャリング sense 1
リストラクチュアリング is the full, formal English loanword for corporate restructuring, while リストラ is its common colloquial abbreviation.
解かい雇こN1sense 2
解雇 directly means being fired or dismissed for cause, whereas リストラ is a softer term implying company-driven downsizing rather than individual fault.
人じん員いん削さく減げん sense 2
人員削減 is the formal business term for workforce reduction, while リストラ is the everyday colloquial word for the same thing.
ダウンサイジング
リストラ usually means restructuring through layoffs, while ダウンサイジング refers more broadly to shrinking scale (operations, systems, or size) without necessarily cutting staff.
減げん員いん
リストラ implies large-scale corporate restructuring often including layoffs and carries a harsher, more negative tone than the neutral 減員.

リストN1
リストラ means corporate restructuring or layoffs and has nothing to do with リスト 'list' despite sharing the same first syllables.

Abbreviation of the English loanword リストラクチュアリング (restructuring). Entered common Japanese usage during the economic downturn of the 1990s.