Definition of buy

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Buy (v. t.) 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..

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Trust :: Trust (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust..
Commerce :: Commerce (n.) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic..
Traffic :: Traffic (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade..
Market :: Market (v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Overbuy :: Overbuy (v. t.) To buy at too dear a rate.
Overtrade :: Overtrade (v. i.) To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To buy for a price.
Buy :: Buy (v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
Buying :: Buying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bu.
Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock..
Buyer :: Buyer (n.) One who buys; a purchaser.
Simony :: Simony (n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.
Customer :: Customer (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
Hand :: Hand (n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new..
Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
Job :: "Job (v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods..
Earnest :: Earnest (n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale..
Cater :: Cater (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions..
Danegelt :: Danegelt (n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm..
Emption :: Emption (n.) The act of buying.
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