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Buying

noun

The act of buying. Synonym: purchasing. "Shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"

Buy

verb

(past & past part. bought; pres. part. buying)

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"

Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence. Synonyms: bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms.

Be worth or be capable of buying.

Acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange.

Accept as true.

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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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