成り行き・成行き・成行|なりゆきnariyuki[0]heiban (flat)

1. nouncourse (of events); development; progress; outcome; result
   あなたは成り行なりゆきを見みてさえいればよい。↗

   All you have to do is wait and see.
2. noun, financemarket order; order without limit

• Related結果けっかNeutralThe most common word for a result or outcome; 「成り行き」 instead stresses the process and trend of how a situation naturally develops.
• Related成果せいかNeutralRefers to achievements — good results gained through effort; unlike 「成り行き」, it says nothing about how things develop.
• Related結末けつまつNeutralMeans the ending or how a story or affair finally wraps up, focusing on the close rather than the course of events.
• Related首尾しゅびNeutralCovers the whole course of an affair from start to finish, and also whether it turned out well, as in 「首尾よく」.
• Related始末しまつNeutralRefers to the whole story of how something went, and also to dealing with or cleaning up a matter; often implies a bad outcome.
• Related仕儀しぎWrittenA written, formal word for a state of affairs or how things turned out, used mainly in the pattern 「…という仕儀になった」.

Use 「成り行き」 for how a situation unfolds or develops, as in 「成り行きに任せる」. For the final result say 「結果」, for how things end 「結末」, and for a bad outcome 「始末」.

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1. 事態じたいの推移すいいや展開てんかい。その結果けっか。
2. 明確めいかくな意図いとや計画性けいかくせいなどを持もたず、その場ばの雰囲気ふんいきに合あわせて行動こうどうすること。偶然ぐうぜん任まかせ。
3. 成行なりゆき注文ちゅうもんの略りゃく。株かぶの売買ばいばい価格かかくを自分じぶんで指定していせず、現在げんざいの表示ひょうじ価格かかくで発注はっちゅうすること。