更こう迭てつ

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更迭する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	更こう迭てつする	更こう迭てつしない
Polite	更こう迭てつします	更こう迭てつしません
Past polite	更こう迭てつしました	更こう迭てつしませんでした
Past	更こう迭てつした	更こう迭てつしなかった
Te-form	更こう迭てつして	更こう迭てつしないで
Desire	更こう迭てつしたい	更こう迭てつしたくない
Potential	更こう迭てつできる	更こう迭てつできない
Passive	更こう迭てつされる	更こう迭てつされない
Causative	更こう迭てつさせる	更こう迭てつさせない
Causative passive	更こう迭てつさせられる	更こう迭てつさせられない
Volitional	更こう迭てつしよう
Polite volitional	更こう迭てつしましょう
Imperative	更こう迭てつしろ	更こう迭てつするな
Conditional	更こう迭てつすれば	更こう迭てつしなければ
Tara conditional	更こう迭てつしたら	更こう迭てつしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

personnel change; reshuffle; shake-up; dismissal and replacement

Formal term used in political, corporate, and organizational contexts for replacing or reshuffling key personnel, often implying a forced change or purge.

内ない閣かく改かい造ぞうに伴ともない、複ふく数すうの閣かく僚りょうが更こう迭てつされた。
Several cabinet ministers were replaced in the cabinet reshuffle.
社しゃ長ちょうは業ぎょう績せき不ふ振しんの責せき任にんを取とらせて営えい業ぎょう部ぶ長ちょうを更こう迭てつした。
The president dismissed the sales director, holding him responsible for the poor performance.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉を更こう迭てつするto dismiss and replace someone (usu. an official or executive)
首しゅ相しょうは不ふ正せいが発はっ覚かくした大だい臣じんを更こう迭てつした。
The prime minister dismissed and replaced the minister after the scandal came to light.
〈人ひと〉が更こう迭てつされるfor someone to be dismissed and replaced
業ぎょう績せき不ふ振しんを理り由ゆうに部ぶ長ちょうが更こう迭てつされた。
The manager was replaced due to poor performance.
〈事こと〉を理り由ゆうに更こう迭てつするto dismiss someone citing a particular reason
失しつ言げんを理り由ゆうに大だい臣じんが更こう迭てつされた。
The minister was replaced over a controversial remark.

Kanji

更grow late, night watch, sit up late
迭transfer, alternation
交mingle, mixing, association

Transitive / intransitive

更迭する can be used transitively, taking a person as its direct object (大臣を更迭する, 'to dismiss the minister'), and it also appears intransitively in the passive-like form 更迭される, meaning 'to be dismissed/replaced'.

Related words

交こう代たいN2
交代 is a neutral, often scheduled change of personnel, while 更迭 implies a forced removal or shake-up, usually of high-ranking officials.
解かい任にん
解任 focuses narrowly on the act of dismissing someone from a post, while 更迭 usually implies both removal and replacement with someone else.
異い動どうN1
異動 is the routine term for a personnel transfer or reassignment within an organization, while 更迭 carries a stronger sense of forced dismissal, often due to scandal or failure.
罷ひ免めん
罷免 is a formal, often legalistic term for stripping someone of their post, while 更迭 more broadly covers reshuffling and replacing personnel.
左さ遷せんN1
更迭 means removing someone from their current post and replacing them, whereas 左遷 focuses on moving the person to a lesser position rather than simply replacing them.

Opposites

留りゅう任にん
留任 means staying on in one's current post, the opposite of 更迭, which means being removed and replaced.

Written forms

更こう迭てつUsage99%
Standard kanji form; high-frequency news term.
交こう迭てつUsage1%
search-only kanji form
Rare variant kanji form; it is search-only.

Etymology

更迭 is a Sino-Japanese compound. 更 means 'change' or 'renew', and 迭 means 'alternate' or 'replace'. The combination conveys the idea of replacing one person with another, especially in official positions.