日本語道場
Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2
N2
~ぐるみ
~gurumi
entire, whole (e.g. family-wide)
When to use it
Use ~ぐるみ to state that an act or activity involved an entire group as a unit — the whole family, the whole company, the whole organization. In business writing it appears most often in reporting on misconduct (組織ぐるみ・会社ぐるみ), where it carries a strong accusatory nuance of collective complicity, and in describing community- or family-level involvement. It attaches only to a small set of nouns, so treat it as a fixed vocabulary item rather than a productive suffix.
Formation
Examples
It is reported to have been organization-wide misconduct.
This cover-up is seen as company-wide.
With that client we socialize as whole families.
The plan is to tackle recruitment on a community-wide basis.
We can't accept terms that would strip us of everything.