買かい占しめ

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

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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.

災さい害がいの後あと、一いち部ぶの人ひとが水みずを買かい占しめた。

After the disaster, some people bought up water.

投とう機き筋すじが原げん油ゆ先さき物ものを買かい占しめている。

Speculators are cornering the crude oil futures market.

Usage patterns

〈物もの〉を買かい占しめるto buy up all of 〈物〉
業ぎょう者しゃがマスクを買かい占しめた。
Dealers bought up all the masks.
〈物もの〉の買かい占しめが起おこるa buying-up spree of 〈物〉 occurs
トイレットペーパーの買かい占しめが起おこった。
A panic buying spree of toilet paper broke out.
買かい占しめに走はしるto rush into panic buying
消しょう費ひ者しゃが買かい占しめに走はしった。
Consumers rushed into panic buying.

Expressions

株かぶ買がい占しめcornering the stock market; stock cornering

Kanji

買buy
占fortune-telling, divining, forecasting

Related words

買かいだめ
買いだめ means stockpiling goods for one's own use, while 買い占め implies buying up large quantities, often for resale or to control the market.
独どく占せんN1
独占 refers broadly to monopolizing control over something, whereas 買い占め specifically describes achieving that control through mass purchasing.

Opposites

買かい控びかえ
買い占め means buying up or hoarding a commodity in large quantities, the opposite behavior to 買い控え, which means holding back on purchases.

Written forms

買かい占しめUsage68%
Standard kanji spelling; the okurigana い makes the reading clear.
買かい占しめUsage32%
Variant without okurigana; less common but still seen.

Etymology

Compound of 買い (kai, 'buying', continuative form of 買う) + 占め (shime, 'monopolizing', continuative form of 占める).