Word Finder - buying

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To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods

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I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday.

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To obtain by some sacrifice.

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I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.

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To bribe.

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He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.

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To be equivalent to in value.

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The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.

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To accept as true; to believe

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I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!

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To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)

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Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.

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To make a bluff, usually a large one.

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Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff

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The act of making a purchase.

I'm thinking about buying a house in the mountains.

So you're buying he's innocent?

Buying this pan for a dollar basically gets you a $2,000 benefit.

Buying fountain pen ink now-a-days is a little tricky.

Howie surprised us all by buying a fairly large home north west of town on the Old Walpole Road.

Wouldn't you wonder if everyone was really buying the drowning bit?

It wasn't something she would normally do - buying clothes specifically for a trip.

When she got home, she was kicking Toby out, buying a gun, and taking back her life.

If he now incurred Natasha's censure it was only for buying too many and too expensive things.

Foreigners were frequently granted the right of public hospitality by the senate down to the end of the republic. The public hospes had a right to entertainment at the public expense, admission to sacrifices and games, the right of buying and selling on his own account, and of bringing an action at law without the intervention of a Roman patron.

I don't care about all your bones foolishness, but Fitz buying the vodka scares me.

You recouped all the money you spent buying these things in the first place.

But Fred wasn't buying.

Randy Byrne managed a smile but a fool could tell he wasn't buying.

This company, it is said, helped to attract the brokers back to the spinners, and an informal understanding was arrived at that the buying broker should not figure both as agent and principal in the same transaction.

The "call" is similar, but relates to buying.

If you keep buying 'opportunities' like Mr. Stanislaw's Salvation Army box, you'll be too broke to answer the door if a real opportunity does come knocking.

Except for buying and selling a couple of vehi­cles and getting here he's had nothing to do but train.

How long are you going to stay; if you're planning on buying the place.

Since you're buying … she side, giving him a sidelong glance.

Guy found some satisfaction for his loss in buying from the Templars the island of Cyprus, and there he reigned for the last two years of his life (1192-1194).

This expedient of buying off the invader was first adopted in 991 on the advice of certain great men of the kingdom.

When the agents of the spinners, that is, the buying brokers, by becoming principals in some transactions, had acquired interests diametrically opposed to those of their customers, the consequent feeling of distrust among spinners gave birth to the Cotton Buying Company, which, constituted originally of twenty to thrity limited cotton-spinning companies, represents to-day nearly 6,000,000 spindles distributed among nearly one hundred firms. Its object was to squeeze out some middlemen and economize for its members on brokerage.

Much buying might take place when stocks were scanty, with the result that prices would be needlessly forced up; and when stocks were plentiful demand might be weak and prices, therefore, be unduly depressed.

It is evident that the buying of cotton on the principles suggested would be calculated to cause great unsteadiness of prices, especially as cotton is not continuously forthcoming, but is produced periodically in harvests.

The first is that spinners would be performing the two functions of industrial management and cotton buying (together with others perhaps), and that in consequence the best industrial men would not necessarily be able to maintain their position in the trade because as buyers of cotton they might be unfortunate.

The third, which is not distinct in principle from the two preceding, is that such limited speculation in cotton buying on the part of spinners worried with other matters would not be likely to steady the cotton market in any high degree.

Some spinners cover their yarn contracts merely by buying " futures," but the cover thus provided is frequently most inadequate owing to variations in the " points on or off" for the particular cotton that they want.

Financial assistance and assurances as to sales and prices have been given liberally by the association where they are needed; ginning and buying centres have been established; experts have been engaged to distribute seed and afford instruction; and some land has been acquired for working under the direct management of the association.

Motives of self-interest may have lurked in them - otherworldly motives of buying salvation for a little price, or worldly motives of achieving riches and acquiring lands.

As early as 1660 George Fox was considering the question of buying land from the Indians.

The diet of Zagreb was allowed to meet, and the Serbo-Croat coalition pursued a policy of pure opportunism, avoiding any pronouncement on matters of high policy, but buying a certain relaxation of regime in Croatia by supporting the Budapest Government and its nominee Skerlecz.

On the 8th of April Gladstone brought in his bill for establishing Home Rule, and eight days later the bill for buying out the Irish landlords.

In 1818 he saved Paris from a financial crisis by buying a large amount of stock, but next year, in consequence of his heated defence of the liberty of the press and the electoral law of 1867, the governorship of the Bank was taken from him.

He was certain that war with Spain was inevitable, and he did much to prepare the navy for hostilities, framing an important personnel bill, collecting ammunition, getting large appropriations for powder and ammunition used in improving the marksmanship of the navy by gunnery practice, buying transports and securing the distribution of ships and supplies (especially in the Pacific) in such a way that, when hostilities were declared, American naval victories would be assured.

The national debt, incurred almost wholly in making and buying railways and telegraphs, and carrying out other public works, amounted at the end of 1909 to £44841,880.

This system of State control prevented industries which used grain as their raw material from buying in an open market, and in their case too it was found necessary to regulate supplies by means of an organization analogous to that of the economic associations already mentioned.

In 1736 there were under 10,000 inhabitants in the former city; in 1760 when Horace Walpole passed through it, buying for two guineas a pair of candlesticks of the local plate, which he thought "quite pretty," and pronouncing it to be "one of the foulest towns in England," there were two-and-twenty thousand who remitted eleven thousand pounds a week to London.

The term "commission agent" is now discredited, and buying done by Manchester houses on simple commission terms is unusual though not unknown.

During the great trade "boom" of 1905 there was a good deal of buying by exporters in advance of their indents because manufacturers continued to contract engagements which threatened to exclude dilatory buyers.

The great general houses such as Rylands's, Philips's and Watt's in Manchester, and Cook's and Pawson's in London, some of which are manufacturers to a minor degree, continue to flourish because under one roof they can supply all that the draper requires, and so enable him to economize in the time spent in buying and to save himself the trouble of attending to many accounts.

The sinking fund was formerly divided among certain favoured banks in such manner as would best advance the political interests of the organization which controlled the state; but just after the reform victory in the election of 1905 the sinking fund commission instituted the policy of buying bonds at the market price, and the debt is now being reduced by that method.

After buying peace by the cession of Acarnania (217) the league concluded a compact with Rome, in which both states agreed to plunder ruthlessly their common enemies (211).

The buying and selling was at that period conducted by young children.

The efforts of the administration to better the condition of the natives without undue interference with customary law met with encouraging results, and the submission of the Aros to the government in 1902 brought to an end the system of tribal warfare for the purpose of making slaves, while the enforcement of a proclamation of 1901 prohibiting the buying, pawning or selling of slaves had a salutary effect.

Trade and Money.There is little evidence to show how buying and selling were carried on in ancient Egypt.

The money needed for these, for his wars, and for buying off the barbarians who threatened the frontiers, had to be obtained by increasing the burdens of the people.

In 1907-1908, $1,500,000 was spent in rehabilitating old buildings and in buying new land and erecting buildings.

The practice of offering, selling and buying Indulgences (see Indulgence) was everywhere common in the beginning of the 16th century.

Buying and selling in their aspects most characteristic of India are to be seen, not at these great towns, nor even at the weekly markets, but at the fairs which are held periodically at certain spots in most districts.