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Buy   /baɪ/   Listen
Buy

verb
(past & past part. bought; pres. part. buying)
1.
Obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction.  Synonym: purchase.  "The conglomerate acquired a new company" , "She buys for the big department store"  Antonym: sell.
2.
Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence.  Synonyms: bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms.
3.
Be worth or be capable of buying.
4.
Acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange.
5.
Accept as true.
noun
1.
An advantageous purchase.  Synonyms: bargain, steal.  "The stock was a real buy at that price"



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"Buy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Tidditt lady promptly. "Never mind, I know enough not to vote to buy a lot of second-handed images and critters just because they belong to one of your relations. I know that much, ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... nor envying. As hath been told, his small and mean retreat, Just masked the palace gates. The Grand Vizier Would pull it down, without formality Of law, or word of grace. More just his lord Commands to buy it first. To hear is to obey; They seek the weaver's bearing bags of gold; "These shalt thou have." "No; keep your lordly sum, My workshop yields my needs," responds the man, "And for my house, I have ...
— Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. - A Drama. And Other Poems. • Sarah Anne Curzon
... his own in any drawing-room in the land; nor could he help inwardly agreeing on catching sight of himself in the chimney-glass that he did look remarkably well in spite of a hairless lip and smooth young cheeks. He mentally decided to get his hair cut, buy lavender gloves and Parma violets, and casually inquire of Leslie, their "swell" man down at old Braggart's, whether coloured silk socks were still ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... has given about $15 to the Lincoln Memorial Fund for the Association and $10 to buy table and chairs for the pulpit. Our Christians are going from house to house to pray with the sick, and many of these people are being brought to Christ through this means. On communion Sunday we opened the folding doors and yet the church was so full that three of us sat down on ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 6, June 1896 • Various
... slaughtered a number of the Government cattle, dividing them among the more distressed colonists; and, to encourage them to go cheerfully to work to cultivate their land again and to become independent of their fellow-settlers, he promised to buy for the King's stores all the wheat they could dispose of after the next harvest, and to pay for it at ...
— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery


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