Kanji 任 responsibility, duty, term Related words 任まか せる 任せる is the base verb meaning 'to entrust'; 任せきり emphasizes that after entrusting, one does not intervene or check.
丸まる 投な げ 丸投げ is a more casual or business term for outsourcing or dumping a whole task on someone, often with a negative nuance of abdication.
Written forms 任まか せきり
Standard spelling using okurigana and kana for the suffix きり .
任まか せ 切き り
Kanji spelling for きり ; less common but still encountered.
Etymology Compound of the continuative form of 任せる (to entrust) and the suffix きり (only, just), indicating that after entrusting, nothing further is done.
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