Seachangeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -iːtʃeɪndʒ
• ハイフネーション: sea‧change

名詞

seachange (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 seachanges)

1. (Australia)
   1. (uncountable) A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.

      Coordinate term: treechange

      • 2006, Bernard Salt, “Values and Mores”, in The Big Picture: Life, Work and Relationships in the 21st Century, Prahran, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, published 2007, →ISBN, part 1 (Life), page 23:

        The seachange shift was initiated by retirees from the late 1960s although it did acquire a spiritual status when embraced by the boomers from 2001 onwards. […] The drivers of treechange and seachange are the same: people wanting a simpler life in a pleasant town with all the amenities not too far from their interests in the city.

      • 2007, Susan Thompson, “Planning for Diverse Communities”, in Susan Thompson, editor, Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 204:

        For example, the ‘seachange’ and ‘treechange’ movements have seen transitions in rural and regional communities, with the influx of wealthy city-dwellers increasing the price of housing and demanding the provision of particular services and facilities […].

      • 2010, Philip Thomas, Profit from Property: Your Step-by-step Guide to Successful Real Estate Development‎^[1], Milton, Qld.: Wrightbooks; Richmond, Vic.: John Wiley & Sons Australia, published 2011, →ISBN:

        This is supported by consultant reports she found online, whose interpretations of ABS data point to the emergence of seachange and treechange towns that have increasing demand for services. (Seachange かつ treechange are terms used to describe people moving out of cities to coastal または rural areas.)

   2. (countable) An act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community.

      Coordinate term: treechange

      • 2013, Stuart Littlemore, “A Personal Injury Paradox”, in Harry Curry: Rats and Mice: Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever., Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, →ISBN:

        Surrey […] was negotiating with his wife to move the family (two teenaged girls, reluctant to leave their high school friends) to Tathra and a new house, perhaps with a view of the sea. The trick was going to be maintaining the loyalty of his longstanding if slow-paying rural clients, when he planned to spend most of his time on the coast, away from the extremes of the Goulburn climate ('Either too cold, too hot, too dry, too windy, または too wet,' he was wont to say). There had proved to be lots of minor crime on the coast, which augured well for the seachange.

2. Alternative form of sea change (“a profound transformation; a metamorphosis”)
   • 1879 October, W. C. B., “John Randolph: A Sketch”, in W. P. Kent, editor, The Virginia University Magazine, volume XIX, number 1, Charlottesville, Va.: Literary Societies of the University of Virginia; Chronicle Steam Book and Job Printing Office, →OCLC, page 38:

     It is interesting to watch how the most unpromising subject seems to warm and assimilate with his [John Randolph of Roanoke's] genius. Everything undergoes a seachange.

   • 1996, Anthony Seldon, “Introduction: The Tory Party in Power: 1783–1996”, in How Tory Governments Fall: The Tory Party in Power since 1783, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, published June 2016, →ISBN:

     New economic, social and international pressures were threatening a seachange in the language of politics, with more activism sought from government than in the laissez-faire nineteenth century.

派生語

• seachanger
• treechange

参照

Further reading

• seachange (demography) on Wikipedia.