訪問販売

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 訪問販売 is a noun read ほうもんはんばい, referring to door-to-door sales in which a seller visits a customer's location to offer goods or services.
• Basic usage: Use 訪問販売の仕組み for the system or mechanism and 訪問販売の仕事 for work in that form of sales.
  • 授業で訪問販売の仕組みを取り上げた。 describes covering the system of door-to-door sales in class; 物語の主人公は訪問販売の仕事を始めた。 says that the protagonist of a story began working in door-to-door sales.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 訪問販売の仕組み
  • の links the sales method to the system being explained.
• 訪問販売の仕事
  • の identifies door-to-door sales as the field or mode of the work.
• 訪問販売 and 販売
  • 販売 broadly means selling goods or services, while 訪問販売 specifies the method of the seller visiting customers.