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verb

Buy v. t. (past & past part. bought; pres. part. buying)

1.

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; opposed to sell. "Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries."

2.

To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. "Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."

To buy again. See Againbuy. (Obs.)

To buy off.

(a)

To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience.

(b)

To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.

To buy out

(a)

To buy off, or detach from.

(b)

To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B.

(c)

To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.

To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.

To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.

To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

Buy v. i. (past & past part. bought; pres. part. buying) To negotiate or treat about a purchase. "I will buy with you, sell with you."

noun

buying n. The act of buying; as, buying equipment for the trip took several hours.

Synonyms: purchasing.

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Etymology of 'Buying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Buying" Quotes from Famous Books

... strolled about the street on his business of marketing. It amused him to be buying three pounds of potatoes and a pound of chopped meat and a package of macaroni, and to be counting Hunt's pennies—remembering those days when he had been a personage to head waiters, and had had his table reserved, and with a careless Midas's gesture had left ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... quarter-blood called Thomaso, and some assistants were engaged in trading with natives from the Zambesi swamps, men of a kind that I had never seen, but in a way more civilised than many further south. What they were selling or buying, I did not stop to see, but I noticed that the store was full of goods of one sort or another, including a great deal of ivory, which, as I supposed, had come down the ...

— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard

... people are buying and selling. Money, as we know it, has not yet been invented, and nearly all the trade is done by means of exchange. When it comes to be a question of how many fish have to be given for a bed, or whether a load of onions is good value for a chair, ...

— Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt • James Baikie

... whenever you want to know whether you have got any real power of composition or adaptation in ornament, don't be content with sticking leaves together by the ends,—anybody can do that; but try to conventionalize a butcher's or a greengrocer's, with Saturday night customers buying cabbage and beef. That will tell you if you can design ...

— The Two Paths • John Ruskin

... nature and mostly confined to elements that will disappear. But what will be added? That will be decided after a new generation has come to maturity: a race of men who never in their lives have had any occasion for buying with money or other economic means of power the surrender of a woman; a race of women who have never had any occasion for surrendering to any man for any other reason but love, or for refusing to surrender to their lover from fear of economic consequences. Once such people ...

— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte

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