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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

記録保持

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kiroku hoji

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Record-keeping/ˈrek.ɚdˌkiː.pɪŋ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"正確な記録保持は企業の信頼性を高めます。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The activity or process of keeping systematic, accurate accounts or records of financial transactions, occurrences, or historical data.

    "Meticulous record-keeping is essential for any business to pass external audits successfully."
  2. 2

    The professional maintenance of medical, legal, or institutional files and documentation.

    "Digital record-keeping has greatly reduced the time nurses spend on administrative tasks."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'record' (from Latin 'recordari', meaning 'to call to mind', via Old French) and the deverbal noun 'keeping' (from Old English 'cēpan', meaning 'to hold or watch'). The compound emerged in early modern administrative contexts to describe the systematic maintenance and archiving of documented information.

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