Illustration: At a neighborhood produce shop, a uniformed police officer lifts the false base of a mechanical weighing scale, exposing a concealed spring that forces its pointer upward. A second officer photographs the mechanism while a customer holds a suspiciously small bag of vegetables beside the scale.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

摘てき発はつ

tekihatsu

to expose wrongdoing

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは広ひろがりを見みせる汚職おしょくスキャンダルで摘発てきはつされた最初さいしょの国会議員こっかいぎいんです。

    He is the first national politician to be named in a widening corruption scandal.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 不正ふせいを摘発てきはつする

    to expose injustice

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 太政大臣だじょうだいじんを除のぞくすべての役人やくにんの不正ふせいを摘発てきはつするのが主おもな任務にんむである。

    It mainly engaged in investigating and arresting all the officials who violated the law except for Dajodaijin.

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

Kanji in 摘発

  • 摘pinch; pickOnテキKunつむ
  • 発departure; dischargeOnハツ・ホツKunたつ・あばく・おこる

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