Illustration: In a small company’s tatami reception room, two visiting clients sit at a low table with their briefcases beside them. Their host kneels nearby, carefully pouring tea while guiding a plate of seasonal sweets within easy reach. A colleague brings an extra cushion for the older visitor.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

接せっ待たい

settai

to entertain guests or clients

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれが外人客がいじんきゃくの接待せったいにあたっている。

    He is in charge of entertaining the foreign guests.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 接待せったい費ひはうちのグループが負担ふたんさせられた。

    The entertainment expense was borne by our group.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ゴルフは社交しゃこうとして戦後盛せんごさかんになり、接待せったいで行おこなわれることも多おおい。

    Golf came to be played actively after the war as one of the social opportunities, and Japanese people also play it frequently when entertaining business-related clients.

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

Kanji in 接待

  • 接touch; contactOnセツ・ショウKunつぐ
  • 待wait; depend onOnタイKunまつ

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