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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

還かん元げん

kangen

to give back

Often used for returning benefits or profits. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. ゲイツ会長かいちょう、広告収入こうこくしゅうにゅうをユーザーに還元かんげんする意向表明いこうひょうめい。

    Bill Gates announces intent to return advertising revenue to the users.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それでも、戦中戦後の混乱期を経ながらも伐採と施業によって一定の収益を上げることができ、大学の財産形成に寄与したほか、一定ながらも地域還元が行われた。

    Even so, the operation of the forest could attain a certain amount of profit by logging trees despite experiencing the turbulent period during and after the war, and contributed to the formation of wealth of the university and returned some of the profit to the local communities, although it was a fixed amount.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 町人ちょうにんや大店おおだなは名誉職めいよしょくと割わり切きり利潤りじゅんの還元かんげんという処世術しょせいじゅつでもあった。

    Chonin or odana thought of this as an unpaid job, and knew how to succeed in life by plowing a part their profits back into society.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 還元

  • 還send back; returnOnカンKunかえる
  • 元beginning; former timeOnゲン・ガンKunもと

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