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As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.
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keiki
noun
  1. business conditions; the market; economic activity; economic climate
  2. good (economic) times; prosperity; boom
  3. liveliness; energy; vigour; vigor; spirit
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no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
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gentai
noun, suru verb
  1. decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
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ga
particle
  1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
  2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
conjunction
  1. but; however; still; and
  2. regardless of; whether (or not) (after the volitional form of a verb)
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hajimaru
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to begin; to start; to commence
  2. to happen (again); to begin (anew)
  3. to date (from); to originate (in)
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to
particle, conjunction
  1. if; when
  2. and
particle
  1. with
  2. used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
noun
  1. promoted pawn
particle
  1. indicates a question (at sentence end)
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tanki
no adjective, noun
  1. short-term
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keiyakushain
noun
  1. contract employee
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keiyaku
noun, suru verb
  1. contract; compact; agreement
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shain
noun
  1. company employee
  2. member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
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tachi
suffix
  1. pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
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ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
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tsugitsugini
adverb
  1. one by one; one after another; successively
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tsugitsugi
adverb, adverb taking the to particle, noun
  1. in succession; one by one
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ni
particle
  1. at (place, time); in; on; during
  2. to (direction, state); toward; into
  3. for (purpose)
  4. because of (reason); for; with
  5. by; from
  6. as (i.e. in the role of)
  7. per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
  8. and; in addition to
  9. if; although
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ichijikaiko
noun, suru verb
  1. (temporary) layoff
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ichiji
noun, adverb
  1. one o'clock
  2. once; at one time; formerly; before
noun, adverb, no adjective
  1. for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily (in weather forecasts, indicates that a given condition will hold for less than one-quarter of the forecast period)
noun
  1. a time; one time; once
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kaiko
noun, suru verb
  1. discharge; dismissal
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wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
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iiwatasu

Passive Plain Past Indicative Form

iiwatasareta
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order
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