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2 definitions found 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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