買い取り

Japanese
Kanji in this term
買 取
か
Grade: 2		 と
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 買い (kai, “buying”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 買う kau, “to buy”) +‎ 取り (tori, “taking”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 取る toru, “to take”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

買い取り (hiragana かいとり, rōmaji kaitori, historical hiragana かひとり)

  1. a purchase, a sale (transaction)
  2. (particularly) a purchase on a no-return policy (generally in reference to a business's purchase of inventory)
  3. a lump-sum payment, a flat fee

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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