重役
じゅうやく
company director, senior executive
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Examples
父は会社の重役です。
ちちはかいしゃのじゅうやくです。
My father is a director at his company.
重役会議は三時から始まります。
じゅうやくかいぎはさんじからはじまります。
The board meeting starts at three.
この重役のポストに適当な人物を見つけるのは難しい。
このじゅうやくのポストにてきとうなじんぶつをみつけるのはむずかしい。
It is hard to find the right person for this executive post.
Common patterns
- 重役会議
- a board meeting
- 重役に就任する
- to take up a directorship
- 重役出勤
- strolling in late, as only a boss can
Memory tip
Literally a "heavy role": board-level management. The joking phrase 重役出勤 describes arriving at work late, because only an executive could get away with it.
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