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Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb
1. setting (someone) to work; employment; using
Noun
2. causativeGrammar
  • じつ実は
  • 、「have
  • もくてきご目的語
  • done」
  • しえき使役
  • じゃない
  • ばあい場合
  • おお多い
Actually, there are many cases where 'have [object] done' is not causative.
Wikipedia definition
3. CausativeIn linguistics, a causative is a form that indicates that a subject causes someone or something else to do or be something, or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event. All languages have ways to express causation, but differ in the means. Some languages have morphological devices that change verbs into their causative forms, or adjectives into verbs of becoming. Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs.
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