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買い占め (かいしめ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Meanings 1
noun
buying up ; cornering the market
Refers to purchasing large quantities of a product, often to control supply or in anticipation of a shortage. Commonly used in economic and news contexts.
さき
物もの
を
買か
い
占し
め
て
いる
。
Speculators are cornering the crude oil futures market.
Written forms 買か い 占し め Usage 68%
Standard kanji spelling; the okurigana い makes the reading clear.
買かい 占し め Usage 32%
Variant without okurigana; less common but still seen.
Kanji 占 fortune-telling, divining, forecasting Etymology Compound of 買い (kai, 'buying', continuative form of 買う) + 占め (shime, 'monopolizing', continuative form of 占める).
