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BUYING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of buying
Example:
shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge
Synonyms:
buying; purchasing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("buying" is a kind of...):
purchase (the acquisition of something for payment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buying"):
shopping (searching for or buying goods or services)
catalog buying; mail-order buying (buying goods to be shipped through the mail)
viatication; viaticus (purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders)
Derivation:
buy (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb buy
Context examples:
Europe has enforced capping regulations and the World Bank has proposed a ‘user fee’ to be imposed on those buying antibiotics for farm animals.
(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)
"Because I'm buying. Here's your money. The dog's mine."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He noted, "the army modernization does not just cover buying 'hardware' but technology transfer as well."
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
He is off now buying a carriage and horses.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At six in the morning, I was in Covent Garden Market, buying a bouquet for Dora.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Having now said enough to make his poverty clear, and to do away the necessity of buying a pair of ear-rings for each of his sisters, in his next visit at Gray's his thoughts took a cheerfuller turn, and he began to congratulate Elinor on having such a friend as Mrs. Jennings.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George’s house, managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of his cast-off shoes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He said that about twelve o’clock at noon, as he was looking through his glass, he spied it at a distance, and thought it was a sail, which he had a mind to make, being not much out of his course, in hopes of buying some biscuit, his own beginning to fall short.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with a focus on business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private institutions and agencies.
(Associate of Business Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
The editor told him plainly that he had not handled the idea properly, but that it was the idea they were buying because it was original.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
