延のべ

noun

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.

• 専せん門もん書しょでは「延のべ売ばい買ばい」が先さき物もの取とり引ひきの意い味みで用もちいられることがある。

  In specialized books, 延べ売買 is sometimes used to mean futures trading.

• 古ふるい商しょう業ぎょう用よう語ごでは、代だい金きんを後あとで払はらう買かい方かたを「延のべ買がい」という。

  In older commercial terminology, buying with payment to be made later is called 延べ買い.

noun

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.

• 金きん属ぞく加か工こうでは、材ざい料りょうを打うって薄うすく伸のばす工こう程ていを「延のべ」と呼よぶことがある。

  In metalworking, the process of hammering material out thin is sometimes called 延べ.

prefix

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.

• 来らい場じょう者しゃは延のべ五ご万まん人にんに達たっした。

  The total number of visitors reached fifty thousand.

• この講こう座ざには延のべ三さん百びゃく人にんが参さん加かした。

  A total of three hundred people took part in this course.