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kanban Japanese [ˈkænbæn]

1. (Business / Commerce) a just-in-time manufacturing process in which the movements of materials through a process are recorded on specially designed cards

2. (Business / Commerce) any of the cards used for ordering materials in such a system

[literally: advertisement hoarding]

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