<entry id="2191281" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1112460</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>フレックス</reb>
<re_pri>gai1</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1112470">フレックスタイム</xref>
<misc>&abbr;</misc>
<gloss>flexible-hours system</gloss>
<gloss>flextime</gloss>
<gloss>flexitime</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<field>&golf;</field>
<gloss>flex (in a golf shaft)</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2020-09-09 00:01:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daijr: 曲げること。曲がること。
daijs: 曲げること。畳むこと。
(honestly I think sense 1 is kind of questionable)</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12,7 @@
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1112470"&gt;フレックスタイム&lt;/xref&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;abbr;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;flexible-hours system&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;flextime&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-09-09 00:30:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I can only find golf-related examples for sense 1.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://www.atomicgolf.jp/contents/community/889/</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-09-10 05:58:05" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Maybe this works. I know we don't like abbreviations as the first gloss, but it's the main meaning of the term in Japanese.
When I was younger "flex" usually meant flexible electrical cable, but I'm not sure it does now.
The n-grams are certainly skewed by company names.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Reverso has a lot of flexible-hours matches, as well as examples where it means something flexible.
フレックス	414712</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10,4 +9,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;flex&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;/sense&gt;
-&lt;sense&gt;
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -17,0 +14,10 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;flexitime&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;flex (in a golf shaft)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;something flexible&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;something that bends&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-09-12 00:28:12" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>"Flex" is still used in BrE to refer to flexible insulated cables.
I looked through the Reverso results and they're full of product descriptions where I have no idea what "flex" is referring to. Can it really mean "something flexible"?</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-09-24 02:33:24" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'll drop that suggested sense and close it.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -20,5 +19,0 @@
-&lt;sense&gt;
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;something flexible&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;something that bends&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-17 11:25:44" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;golf;&lt;/field&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>