辞令(じれい)

Types

• 採用(さいよう)辞令(じれい): letter of appointment on hiring
• 昇進(しょうしん)辞令(じれい): promotion notice
• 転勤(てんきん)辞令(じれい): transfer notice

Common expressions

• 辞令(じれい)が出(で)る: an official personnel notice is issued
• 辞令(じれい)を受(う)ける: to receive an official appointment or transfer

Related words

• 内示(ないじ): the informal advance notice given before the official 辞令(じれい)

Watch out

• 社交辞令(しゃこうじれい) uses the older sense of 辞令(じれい) as "wording": it means polite words not meant literally ("let's have dinner sometime"), and has nothing to do with personnel notices.

Cultural note

• Large Japanese organizations issue most 辞令(じれい) at fixed times of year, especially April 1, the start of the fiscal year.