Illustration: At the entrance to a small apartment building during heavy rain, residents work together to prevent water from reaching the interior. One slots a removable flood barrier into brackets across the doorway while another presses sandbags firmly along its base.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

講こうずる

kouzuru

to take measures, to devise

Often used with 措置 or 対策. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 五条ごじょうに到着とうちゃくしたばかりの平野へいやは善後策ぜんごさくを講こうずるために急いそぎ帰京ききょう。

    Hirano, who just arrived in Gojo, hastened back to Kyoto in order to take countermeasures.

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

  2. 当初とうしょは天保てんぽうの大飢饉だいききんなどの相次あいつぐ飢饉対策ききんたいさくを講こうずるために結成けっせいされたといわれる。

    It was supposedly originally set up to take measures against a series of famine like the Tenpo Famine.

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

  3. 特とくに携帯電話けいたいでんわによる年賀ねんがメールは新年しんねんの挨拶通話あいさつつうわである「おめでとうコール」とともに社会問題しゃかいもんだいにもなり近年きんねん、携帯電話事業者けいたいでんわじぎょうしゃでは大晦日おおみそか〜元日がんじつにかけての通信つうしんや通話つうわに制限せいげんを設もうけるなどの措置そちを講こうずるようになった。

    Particularly, New Year’s e-mail via mobile phone has become a social problem along with the "Happy New Year call" as a greeting, and therefore mobile phone companies take measures to limit the telecommunications and phone calls on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

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

Kanji in 講

  • 講lecture; clubOnコウ

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