見合わせ

• 読み: みあわせ
• ローマ字: miawase
• 漢字の分解: 見 (mi) — see, look; 合 (a) — match, combine
• 発音: /mi.a.wa.se/

意味

Postponement; suspension; holding off on something. Also literally means looking at each other.

A noun derived from the verb 見合わせる (to postpone/to look at each other). Most commonly encountered in announcements about train suspensions (運転見合わせ) or decisions to delay plans. The literal sense of two people gazing at one another is less frequent in modern usage but still understood.

例文

1. 台風の影響で電車が運転見合わせになった。
2. 予算不足のため計画の見合わせが決まった。
3. 出発の見合わせを検討している段階です。

使い方ガイド

場面: transportation, business, planning, announcements

トーン: serious

起源と歴史

From 見 (mi, to see/look) + 合わせ (awase, to match/combine). The compound verb 見合わせる originally meant 'to look at each other face to face,' which evolved into the sense of pausing to assess a situation before acting.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal