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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

... by which was meant buying and selling and manufacturing, also financial dealings and commerce, the passion for money-getting was particularly prominent. An astonishingly small percentage of those that went into business, as they said, made a success, if we except the large manufacturers, but in spite of that it was ...

— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan

... fall went by; the winter came. The snow began to fall on Mitch's grave and Little Billie's; and still we went on. Delia got the meals as before; the washwoman came and did the washing on Monday; pa was buying wood for the stoves; we had to be fitted out for winter. Grandma and grandpa came in to see us, cheerful and kind as they always were. Once he carried a half a pig up the hill and brought it to us; and they were always giving us things; and grandma was always knitting me mittens and socks. They ...

— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters

... exist in the English language other methods of counting, some of them formal enough to be dignified by the term system—as the sexagesimal method of measuring time and angular magnitude; and the duodecimal system of reckoning, so extensively used in buying and selling. Of these systems, other than decimal, two are noticed by Tylor,[218] and commented on ...

— The Number Concept - Its Origin and Development • Levi Leonard Conant

... all the Brussels ladies have old lace—very precious—which must be mended all the times it is washed. I earned money a little, and this money I grave for lessons in the studies I have mentioned; some of it I spent in buying books, English books especially; soon I shall try to find a place of governess, or school-teacher, when I can write and speak English well; but it will be difficult, because those who know I have been ...

— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell

... skipper was a very sharp fellow, and perfectly understood his business-practically anticipating the Transatlantic axiom of buying at the cheapest market and gelling at the dearest-he soon contrived to grow rich. He did more: he pleased his customers at the Three Cranes. Taking care to select his wines judiciously, and having good opportunities, ...

— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth

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