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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

... 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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