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[青田] ¶学生の～買いをする

recruit employees from students before they graduate from ［while they are still at］ college or high school.

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あおた【青田】

¶学生の～買いをする

recruit employees from students before they graduate from ［while they are still at］ college or high school.

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あおた【青田】

〔青々とした田〕 a green rice field; 〔植えつけてある田〕 a paddy field under crop; 〔まだ実っていない田〕 a field of unripe rice.

青田売り[買い] selling [buying] rice before the harvest [it is reaped].

●(学生の)青田買いをする start recruiting activities [sign employment contracts 《with college students》] earlier than the officially agreed date

・企業は, 青田買いを防止するための協定を結んだ. Companies entered into an agreement aimed at preventing early hiring of future graduates.

青田刈り 〔学生の〕 the hiring of future 《university》 graduates earlier than the customary time.

青田売買 dealing in unharvested rice crop.