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Simoniac :: Simoniac (n.) One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church..

Ticketing :: Ticketing (n.) A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

Shoplifter :: Shoplifter (n.) One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal..

Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..

Flunky :: Flunky (n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.

Measure :: Measure (n.) The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure..

Business :: Business (n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

Regrate :: Regrate (v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense..

Scalper :: Scalper (n.) A person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also, ticket scalper..

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

Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.

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

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..

Opsonation :: Opsonation (n.) A catering; a buying of 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..

Chap :: Chap (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.

Cater :: Cater (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions..

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..

Traffic :: Traffic (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

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