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Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house..

Scalper :: Scalper (n.) A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.

Straddling :: Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a put and a call, i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities..

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.

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..

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..

Overbuy :: Overbuy (v. t.) To buy at too dear a rate.

Bargain :: Bargain (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain..

Merchandise :: Merchandise (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

Jobber :: "Jobber (n.) One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers..

Againbuy :: Againbuy (v. t.) To redeem.

Factor :: Factor (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker..

Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished..

Spread :: Spread (n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon..

Customer :: Customer (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.

Nundination :: Nundination (n.) Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling.

Authority :: Authority (n.) Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court..

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..

Overbuy :: Overbuy (v. t.) To buy too much.

Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee..

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