馴れ合い

• 読み: なれあい
• ローマ字: nareai
• 漢字の分解: 馴 (nare) — tame, become accustomed; 合 (ai) — together, mutually
• 発音: /naɾeaɪ/

意味

Collusion; cosiness; mutual back-scratching. An overly comfortable, uncritical relationship between parties who should maintain independence.

From the verb 馴れ合う — to become overly familiar, to collude without formal agreement. 馴れ合い describes situations where parties who should maintain critical independence (e.g., regulators and regulated industries, journalists and politicians, management and auditors) instead develop cosy, mutually protective relationships. It differs from 談合 (explicit bid-rigging) by suggesting a diffuse, informal complicity born of habit.

例文

1. 規制機関と業界の馴れ合いが安全基準の形骸化を招いた。
2. 記者クラブ制度が政権との馴れ合いを生むという批判がある。
3. 仲間同士の馴れ合いで問題を見て見ぬふりするのは組織腐敗の温床だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: politics, journalism, corporate governance, social criticism

トーン: negative

起源と歴史

From 馴れる (nareru) — to become tame, accustomed, overly familiar, combined with 合う (au) — to do mutually. The character 馴 depicts a domesticated horse, conveying the sense of an animal that has lost its natural wariness through habituation.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: General