futures trading; buying on credit; deferred transaction
Rare or specialized commercial use. The English gloss cover both futures-type trading and credit buying; these are best understood as limited terms related to transactions whose settlement or payment is extended into the future.
In specialized books, 延べ売買 is sometimes used to mean futures trading.
In older commercial terminology, buying with payment to be made later is called 延べ買い.
stretching; extending; hammering out
Technical or craft-related noun use for stretching or extending material, especially in contexts such as metalworking. It is much less common for learners than the aggregate-count prefix use.
In metalworking, the process of hammering material out thin is sometimes called 延べ.
total; aggregate; gross; cumulative
Common prefix before a number, counter, or counting noun. It gives a gross or cumulative total, often counting repeated attendance or participation rather than unique individuals.
The total number of visitors reached fifty thousand.
A total of three hundred people took part in this course.
A cumulative total of 1,000 people took part in this event.
The construction work took a total of 30 days, counted cumulatively.
The participants came to a cumulative total of 500 people.
hammered-out metal plate; sheet metal formed by hammering