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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

... enormous total of contributions was, in a word, the general willingness of those supporting the war to forego luxuries. They ceased buying a great multitude of unnecessary things. But what became of the labor that had previously supplied the demand for luxuries? A part of it went the way of all other Northern labor—into new trades, into the army, or to the West—and a part continued to manufacture luxuries: ...

— Abraham Lincoln and the Union - A Chronicle of the Embattled North, Volume 29 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson

... The postal service on the shore of Greenland is very defective. You see, Shandon, I fancy that he is waiting for us at some Danish settlement up there,—at Holsteinborg or Upernavik. We shall find that he has been completing the supply of seal-skins, buying sledges and dogs,—in a word, providing all the equipment for a journey in the arctic seas. So I shall not be in the least surprised to see him coming out of his cabin some fine morning and taking command in the least ...

— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne

... him—I don't know which, or at least I did not know then! Since we were sitting all mixed up everyone had to pay for himself, and Father said next day we had spent a perfect fortune; but that was not in the hotel, it happened later, when we were buying mementoes. And I think Dora gave Marina 3 crowns, so that she could buy some things too. But Dora never lets on about anything of that sort. I must say I like her character better and better; in those ways she is very ...

— A Young Girl's Diary • An Anonymous Young Girl

... got a letter this morning from that stupid banker, Henriquez. He has made a muddle of buying those three pictures we wanted, and that Englishman who was so crazy about them will get the lot after all, unless I ...

— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens

... words are found in the Greek version here. They are translated "ton kairon" in the revised version, "Buying up for yourselves the opportunity." The two words ton kairon ...

— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

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