買青苗 (maai5 ceng1 miu4) — to profiteer; to exploit and take advantage of those in difficult circumstances / suffering from hardship in order to gain benefits by unfair means, usually to describe profiteers who take advantage of farmers during hard times to prepay for future crops from them at an unreasonably low price, which is effectively loan sharking in disguise in Cantonese
maaiˏ₅買cengˉ¹青miuˎ₄苗简 买青苗
Mandarin Pinyin: mai3 qing1 miao2
Meaning of 買青苗
nounto profiteer; to exploit and take advantage of those in difficult circumstances / suffering from hardship in order to gain benefits by unfair means, usually to describe profiteers who take advantage of farmers during hard times to prepay for future crops from them at an unreasonably low price, which is effectively loan sharking in disguise