Illustration: At a neighborhood supermarket checkout, a shopper presents a cart piled high with identical packages of toilet paper and hands payment to the cashier. Immediately behind the cart, the shelf for those same packages has been stripped bare; its final package rests on the checkout counter.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

買かい占しめ

kaishime

buying up goods

Example sentences

  1. 重太郎じゅうたろうが大躍進だいやくしんしたのは西南戦争せいなんせんそうのときで、このとき軍用ぐんようウールの買占かいしめを行おこない、巨利きょりを得えた。

    It was when Seinan War happened that Jutaro made a big breakthrough and then he gained enormous profit by buying up wool.

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

  2. 米価格こめかかくが高騰こうとうすることにより、地主じぬしや商人しょうにんは米こめを投機とうきへまわすようになり、次第しだいに売うり惜おしみや買かい占しめが発生はっせいしはじめた。

    As the rice price soared, landlords and merchants started to speculate in rice and gradually withholding of rice and the buyout occurred.

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

  3. 台風たいふうの前まえに、水みずの買かい占しめが起おきた。

    People started buying up water before the typhoon.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 買占

  • 買buyOnバイKunかう
  • 占fortune-telling; diviningOnセンKunしめる・うらなう

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