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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buy \Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought}; p. pr & vb n.
{Buying}.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS bycgan akin to OS
buggean Goth. bugjan.]
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. --B. Franklin.
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. --Prov. xxiii.
23.
{To buy again}. See {Againbuy}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{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 --Shak.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
buying
n : the act of buying; "buying equipment for the trip took
several hours" [syn: {purchasing}]
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