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As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.
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Vocabulary list

keiki
noun
  1. business conditions; the market; economic activity; economic climate
  2. good (economic) times; prosperity; boom
  3. liveliness; energy; vigour; vigor; spirit
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
gentai
noun, suru verb
  1. decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
ga
particle
  1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
  2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
conjunction
  1. but; however; still; and
  2. regardless of; whether (or not) (after the volitional form of a verb)
hajimaru
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to begin; to start; to commence
  2. to happen (again); to begin (anew)
  3. to date (from); to originate (in)
to
particle, conjunction
  1. if; when
  2. and
particle
  1. with
  2. used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
noun
  1. promoted pawn
particle
  1. indicates a question (at sentence end)
tanki
no adjective, noun
  1. short-term
keiyakushain
noun
  1. contract employee
keiyaku
noun, suru verb
  1. contract; compact; agreement
shain
noun
  1. company employee
  2. member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
tachi
suffix
  1. pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
tsugitsugini
adverb
  1. one by one; one after another; successively
tsugitsugi
adverb, adverb taking the to particle, noun
  1. in succession; one by one
ni
particle
  1. at (place, time); in; on; during
  2. to (direction, state); toward; into
  3. for (purpose)
  4. because of (reason); for; with
  5. by; from
  6. as (i.e. in the role of)
  7. per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
  8. and; in addition to
  9. if; although
ichijikaiko
noun, suru verb
  1. (temporary) layoff
ichiji
noun, adverb
  1. one o'clock
  2. once; at one time; formerly; before
noun, adverb, no adjective
  1. for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily (in weather forecasts, indicates that a given condition will hold for less than one-quarter of the forecast period)
noun
  1. a time; one time; once
kaiko
noun, suru verb
  1. discharge; dismissal
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
iiwatasu

Passive Plain Past Indicative Form

iiwatasareta
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

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