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daigou

Today it means: A business practice in which a person outside of China purchases commodities for a customer in mainland China. Full definition →

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From Mandarin 代購／代购 (dàigòu, “to buy on someone's behalf”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.