専売

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The spelling is 専売, read せんばい, and it combines 専, meaning exclusively, with 売, meaning sell.
• Basic usage: 専売 is the exclusive sale of a product or the holding of sole rights to sell it by a particular store, company, or institution.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• An exclusive item and the act of exclusive selling
  • The forms are 専売品 and 専売する. The first names an item available from a particular seller, while the second describes a company undertaking sales under an exclusive arrangement.
• A store-only product and a new-product contract
  • この商品は当店の専売品として扱われている。 — This product is sold as an exclusive item at our store.
  • その会社は新製品を専売する契約を結んだ。 — The company signed a contract for exclusive sales of the new product.