談合

• 読み: だんごう
• ローマ字: dangō
• 漢字の分解: 談 (dan) — talk, discuss; 合 (gō) — combine, agree, match
• 発音: /daŋɡoː/

意味

Bid-rigging; collusion; secret agreement among competitors to fix prices or determine a winner before a formal tender.

Originally a neutral term meaning consultation or discussion, 談合 has acquired a strongly negative connotation in modern Japanese, almost exclusively referring to illegal pre-arrangement of public tender outcomes. It is rampant in construction and public works sectors and carries criminal liability under Japan's Antimonopoly Act. The term 官製談合 refers specifically to collusion orchestrated by government officials.

例文

1. 道路工事の入札で談合が行われていたことが発覚した。
2. 談合に関与した複数の建設会社が公正取引委員会から排除措置命令を受けた。
3. 官製談合の疑いで市の幹部職員が捜査を受けている。

使い方ガイド

場面: law, public procurement, corporate crime, journalism

トーン: negative

起源と歴史

From 談 (dan) — talk, discuss, and 合 (gō) — combine, agree. The original meaning of mutual consultation has been almost entirely displaced by the illegal sense. First documented in bid-rigging contexts from the Meiji infrastructure boom.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Business and government