Illustration: Outside a popular neighborhood bakery, customers queue beneath the narrow awning as rain begins. The owner of the adjacent household-goods shop notices the captive crowd and wheels a stand of umbrellas directly beside the line.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

便びん乗じょう

binjou

to take advantage of an opportunity

Example sentences

  1. 関東大震災かんとうだいしんさいで難民なんみんとなった人々ひとびとが新宿しんじゅくへと逃のがれてきたとき、便乗びんじょうして高額こうがくな商品しょうひんを売うりつけるような真似まねをせず、安価あんかなパンなどを連日販売れんじつはんばいして人々ひとびとの飢うえを満みたした。

    When the refugees from the Great Kanto Earthquake escaped into Shinjuku, he never sold products at a higher price taking advantage thereof, and sold lower priced bread, etc. each and every day and satisfied people’s hunger.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. ヨーロッパでは活版印刷かっぱんいんさつが行おこなわれるようになった近世きんせいには既すでに、フランソワ・ラブレーやミゲル・デ・セルバンテスなどの人気作家にんきさっかに肖あやかって、彼かれらの作品さくひんに便乗びんじょうした偽物にせものが出だされていた。

    By the early modern period, when movable-type printing had taken hold in Europe, counterfeit books cashing in on works by popular authors such as François Rabelais and Miguel de Cervantes were already being published.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 人気にんきに便乗びんじょうして、似にた商品しょうひんが次々つぎつぎと発売はつばいされた。

    Similar products were released one after another to cash in on its popularity.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 便乗

  • 便convenience; facilityOnベン・ビンKunたより
  • 乗ride; powerOnジョウ・ショウKunのる・のせる

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