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買い上げ (かいあげ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Meanings 1
noun
buying ; purchasing ; procurement
Often used in business or official contexts for the act of buying goods, especially by an organization. The polite form お買い上げ is common in customer-facing situations.
See also: お買い上げ
The city is proceeding with the purchase of land.
Written forms 買か い 上あ げ Usage 58%
Standard kanji spelling; the okurigana い is included.
買かい 上あ げ Usage 42%
Variant without okurigana; less common but still used.
Etymology Compound of 買い (kai, 'buying', the continuative form of 買う) and 上げ (age, 'raising' or 'completing', from 上げる). The combination suggests the completion of a purchase.
