zaitechhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zaitech_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezaitech, n.
First published 1997; not fully revised

zaitechnoun

Commerce.
  1. 1986–
    Investment in financial markets by a company as a means of supplementing the earnings which it receives from its principal operations.
    1. 1986
      The Euromarkets have already drawn Japan's banks and securities houses to London. Now the country's companies are arriving—for the Zaiteku.
      Economist 28 June 86/3
    2. 1986
      Everyone seems to be trying his hand at deftly juggling securities using ‘zaitech’, or financial engineering.
      Washington Post 26 October d2/2
    3. 1988
      The word zaitek is an amalgam of Japanese and foreign elements.
      A. Viner, Emerging Power Japanese Money v. 155
    4. 1989
      Big enterprises in banking, transportation, and commerce have maintained extremely labor-intensive services, besides services outstanding in the use of limited numbers of personnel extremely qualified in innovative methods of Zaitech as well as of modern electronic communication systems.
      M. & H. Schmiegelow, Strategic Pragmatism iv. 110
    5. 1992
      About 70 percent of the $135 billion went for zaitech, Japanese slang for financial engineering.
      Playboy November 166/3

zaitech, n. was first published in 1997; not fully revised.

zaitech, n. was last modified in December 2024.