引き締め

• 読み: ひきしめ
• ローマ字: hikishime
• 漢字の分解: 引 (in/hi) — pull; 締 (tei/shi) — tighten, close
• 発音: /çi.ki.ɕi.me/

意味

Tightening; austerity; restraint. The act of tightening monetary policy, budgets, credit, or internal discipline.

Most commonly appears in 金融引き締め (monetary tightening) — when a central bank raises interest rates or reduces the money supply to control inflation. Also used for budgetary austerity (財政引き締め) or internal cost discipline (経費の引き締め). The antonym is 緩和 (easing). Often signals a shift from expansionary to contractionary policy.

例文

1. 中央銀行は物価上昇を受けて金融引き締めに転じた。
2. 景気過熱を抑えるために財政引き締めが必要だという意見が多い。
3. 社内経費の引き締めを徹底するよう全部門に通達が出た。

使い方ガイド

場面: monetary policy, economics, fiscal policy, management

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Nominalisation of 引き締める (to tighten, to pull tight). 引き (pull) + 締め (tightening, closing) — the act of pulling something tighter, applied metaphorically to economic or managerial control.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Business/Policy