受うけ売うり

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

retailing; buying and reselling

Literal meaning: buying goods and selling them as is, without processing. This sense is less common in modern usage; the figurative sense is dominant.

• この店みせは受うけ売うりではなく、自じ家か製せいの商しょう品ひんを扱あつかっている。

  This shop handles homemade products, not resold goods.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

parroting; echoing; repeating someone else's words

Common figurative use: repeating what someone else said without adding one's own thought, often with a negative connotation of lacking originality.

• 彼かれの意い見けんは全ぜん部ぶ、先せん生せいの受うけ売うりだ。

  His opinions are all just parroting the teacher's.

• 人ひとの話はなしを受うけ売うりするだけでは、自じ分ぶんの考かんがえは深ふかまらない。

  Just echoing what others say won't deepen your own thinking.