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I came across the following sentence:

4000万円までは借金を膨らませて働かせ、5000万円になると自殺するのでそれ以上の借金はさせない

How 働かせ is understood in this context? It looks like an imperative form of
働かす, but the imperative form over here doesn't make any sense here.
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grammar conjunctions
Understanding of 働かせ in the sentence below
働かせ can be either the continuative form of 働かせる or the imperative form of 働かす.
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The 働かせ in your example is the former. You can rephrase the sentence as
「4000万円までは借金を膨らませて働かせ **て** 、5000万円になると～～」.

For more about using 連用形 as a conjunction, you could refer to:

  * [Is there a term for using conjugating verbs such that the sentence continues with another clause?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/9771/9831)
  * [Masu stem to connect sentences](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/41133/9831)
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