[tokkhāo] (v) EN: do forward buying of paddy from farmers by paying a deposit ; advance money against a growing crop ; take a future contract on a rice crop
[tokkhīo] (v) EN: do forward buying of paddy from farmers by paying a deposit ; advance money against a growing crop ; take a future contract on a rice crop
n. The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser. Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs, advertisements, on the web, etc., and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail, telephone, or internet connection. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]
[倒, dǎo, ㄉㄠˇ]to fall; to collapse; to topple; to fail; to go bankrupt; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to sell; to speculate (buying and selling, also 搗|捣); profiteer#1009[Add to Longdo]
[いろちがい(色チ買い;色ち買い);イロチがい(イロチ買い), irochigai ( shoku chi kai ; shoku chi kai ); irochi gai ( irochi kai )](n, vs) (sl) (See イロチ) buying the same item multiple times, each one being a different color (colour)[Add to Longdo]
[ヤングラいちば, yangura ichiba](n) young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)[Add to Longdo]
[やすものがいのぜにうしない, yasumonogainozeniushinai](exp) you get what you pay for; buying cheap goods is a waste of money (because the quality is always so poor)[Add to Longdo]
[キセルじょうしゃ, kiseru jousha](n, vs) (See 煙管乗り) cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends)[Add to Longdo]
[かいうんしょうほう, kaiunshouhou](n) (See 霊感商法) fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck[Add to Longdo]
[きょうのきだおれ, kyounokidaore](exp) (See 大阪の食い倒れ, 着倒れ) financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto)[Add to Longdo]
[あおたがい, aotagai](n) (1) speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; (2) recruiting of students before a company is allowed to; (P)[Add to Longdo]
[ころがし, korogashi](n) (1) (abbr) rolling (something); knocking down; (2) (See 転がし釣り) fishing with multiple hooks on a weighted line; (3) repeatedly buying and selling[Add to Longdo]