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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

... had long been simmering in the minds of enterprising foreigners; but it was out of the question to think that the Government would allow land to be sold for such a purpose; therefore there would be no sellers. In 1876 a private company succeeded in obtaining the necessary land by buying up connecting strips between Shanghai and Woosung at the mouth of the river, about eight miles in all. The company then proceeded to lay down a miniature railway, which was an object of much interest to the native, whose amusement soon took the form ...

— China and the Manchus • Herbert A. Giles

... claims are yours, and in your own names, and you can both make short 'mushing' trips of inspection over the country when you like; though the new railroad up Anvil will be finished in a few weeks, and then you can ride. Under no consideration must either of you think for one moment of buying steamer tickets back to the States inside of a year. At the end of that time we will be taking out so much gold that you will not wish to leave, I assure you. I am almost thirty years old now, Mother, and you and ...

— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... Pretty told of many experiences that they went through during their enslavement. The Negro and white over-seer was much in evidence down there and buying and selling of children from their parents seemed to have left ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Florida Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... France, which they enriched by commerce and taxes, and where they formed considerable communities, the Jews enjoyed the protection of the nobles. We find them in Languedoc and Provence buying and selling property like Christians, a privilege which was not permitted to them elsewhere: this is proved by charters of contracts made during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which bear the signature of certain Jews in Hebrew characters. ...

— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... may imagine that the liberty of buying and selling is the sole basis of the equality of wages, and that society's sole protection against superiority of talent lies in a certain force of inertia which has nothing in common with right, I shall proceed to explain why all ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

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