Illustration: Inside a small Japanese metalworking factory, several workers coordinate an active production line. One feeds flat metal blanks into a guarded press, another checks newly formed shallow trays, and a third stacks finished trays into transport crates.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

操そう業ぎょう

sougyou

to operate a factory or business

Example sentences

  1. その工場こうじょうは来月らいげつから操業そうぎょうを中止ちゅうしする。

    The factory will cease operations next month.

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  2. あの工場こうじょうは操業そうぎょうを休やすんでいる。

    That factory has stopped operating.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 操業そうぎょうを守まもるために来きている。

    We came to protect the operations.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 操業

  • 操maneuver; manipulateOnソウ・サンKunみさお・あやつる
  • 業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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