JLPT N1
青田買い
Recruiting students or securing assets early based on future potential
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青田買いする verb form
1 Noun
Buying a Harvest in Advance
The agricultural practice of purchasing the rights to a rice harvest while the plants are still green and unripe.
Example
昔 の 商人 は 、 米 の 収穫 を 予測 して 青田買い を して いた 。
In the old days, merchants would predict the rice yield and buy the harvest in advance.
2 Noun, Suru Verb (〜する)
Early Recruiting / Snapping up Talent
The corporate strategy of aggressively recruiting and securing university students long before their scheduled graduation.
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