zaitech – English noun declension

English noun forms of zaitech

Noun: zaitech
Singularzaitech

Sample Sentences

  • Not all of the capital raised in this way was channeled into new plant and equipment; a large amount was used for what came to be called zaitech, or financial engineering, which included the purchase of more real estate and securities offering higher and higher yield. [1996, Walter Hatch, Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance, page 21:]
  • This in turn spurred the proliferation of zaitech — sophisticated financial operations on a global scale. [1998, Frank Gibney, editor, Unlocking the Bureaucrat's Kingdom: Deregulation and the Japanese Economy, page 84:]
  • New financial technologies, like securitization, are playing an important role […]. And the leading sources of the new positive zaitech are firms like […] [2000, Stephen M. Harner, Japan's Financial Revolution and How American Firms Are Profiting, page 217:]
  • Such "high-tech" financial transactions are called 'zaitech' in Japan. Many old-timers thought zaitech was sinfully speculative […] [1993, Roy C. Smith, Comeback: The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy, page 245:]
  • Inevitably, like the times themselves, the term zaitech later came to connote speculative and imprudent financial dabbling […] [2000, Stephen M. Harner, Japan's Financial Revolution and How American Firms Are Profiting, page 217:]

Etymology

From Japanese 財テク (zaiteku, “money management”), from blend of 財務 (zaimu, “financial dealings”) and テクノロジー (tekunorojii, “technology”), the latter, from English technology. The -tech in zaitech reflects the original borrowing of English technology. See: English Nouns 'technology'.