商法
Meanings
Noun
1. business practice; business method; commerce
2. commercial law
Kanji used
Pitch accent
しょうほう
Used in vocabulary
点検商法
unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items
Noun
内職商法
work-at-home scheme (scam in which the offer of a highly paid work-at-home job is used to lure victims into paying substantial upfront costs)
Noun
便乗商法
piggybacking marketing; method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.)
Noun
福祉商法
unscrupulous business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; sales methods in which someone falsely claims to represent a charitable organization
Noun
霊視商法
fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits)
Noun
Examples2
彼女 は 例の 金 の インチキ 証券 商法 に 引っかかり 持ち金 の ほとんど を 失って しまった。
She was taken in by that fake gold certificate scandal and lost most of her money.
商法 は 企業 法 と いえる。
Commercial Code can be called an enterprise method.