見切り

• 読み: みきり
• ローマ字: mikiri
• 漢字の分解: 見 (ken/mi) — see, discern; 切 (setsu/ki) — cut, decide definitively
• 発音: /mi.ki.ɾi/

意味

Giving up; writing something off; cutting losses. Also: clearance pricing to quickly sell off remaining stock.

Has two interrelated meanings: (1) decisively giving up on something or someone deemed hopeless (見切りをつける = to write off, to give up on); (2) clearance pricing of goods being sold off below cost (見切り品 = clearance item, marked-down goods). In investment contexts it overlaps with 損切り (cutting losses). The core idea is making a clear-eyed, unsentimental decision to abandon something.

例文

1. 長年続けた事業に見切りをつけて廃業を決意した。
2. 含み損が拡大する前に見切りをつけて売却した。
3. スーパーの閉店前には見切り品が半額で並んでいる。

使い方ガイド

場面: business, investing, retail, decision-making

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Nominalisation of 見切る (to see clearly through to the end; to size up completely and decide to abandon). 見 (see) + 切る (to cut through, to decide completely).

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal