Buying

Definition: Buying

Buying

Noun

1. The act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "buying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Buying

Barter

Trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery.

Purchase

Noun: purchase, emption; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal.

Crosswords: Buying

It's beer o'clock, and I'm buying. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

And you're haggling over one hundred pound? What're you doing when you're not buying stereos Nick (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

I was just buying you a new one. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

Take it easy, I was just buying some clothes (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others (Wall Street; writing credit: Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, and Martin Sheen as Carl Fox.)

Gave me bad credit, buying gifts with my own name ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

Ooh ooh and she's buying a stairway to heaven ("Stairway to Heaven"; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

At the corner store buying up all the sweets (Ghetto Girls; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying (You Get What You Give; performing artist: New Radicals)

One Sample Of The Snapple And Your Ass Was Whup Have You Buying Gucci Sandles (Pu**y; performing artist: R. Kelly)

When riding a dead horse (government), try buying a stronger whip. (references; author: unknown)

Materialism is buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people who don't matter. (references; author: unknown)

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (references; author: unknown)

Buying Fever (1943)

Grantland Rice Sportlight No. R1-5: Buying a Dog (1941)

Buying a Gun (1929)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Create Multiple Streams of Income Buying Homes in Nice Areas With Nothing Down: Buying Homes in Nice Areas With Nothing Down (reference)

• Buying and Supplying Quality (reference)

• Swish Fish: An Entertaining Guide to Buying and Cooking Fish (reference)

• EBay the Smart Way : Selling, Buying, and Profiting on the Web's #1 Auction Site (reference)

• Don't Get Taken Every Time : The Ultimate Guide to Buying or Leasing a Car in the Showroom or on the Internet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Buying Strategy Forecast (reference)

• Computer Buying Guide (reference)

• Consumer Reports Home Computer Buying Guide (reference)

• Installation & Cleaning Specialist Trade Directory & Buying Guide (reference)

• Merchandising & Buying Electronics (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Buying the Cow (reference)

• Buying the Cow/Love Stinks (reference)

• Buying a Business (reference)

• Trash to Cash-Episode 1-A Garage Sale Adventure w/Lynn Dralle (Your guide to buying & selling at online auctions like ebay & Yahoo.) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Buying the Lie (reference)

• Happy Soul / Buying a Book: Dial Records Serie 4 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• EZ Legal SW1146 Car Buying Made E-Z (reference)

• Buying & Selling a Business made E-Z Online (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown are the supermarket shelf labels indicating foods that are high in fiber and/or low in fat. This is part of a cooperative study of NCI and Giant Foods to try to change shoppers' buying habits to buy foods higher in fiber and lower in fats to help prevent cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

[Nurses buying Chinese rainhats in Kunming, China]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Soldier buying eggs from a Mexican woman]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Women buying meat at the butcher's. Credit: Library of Congress.

Senators buying liberty bonds. Credit: Library of Congress.

New York shop-girls buying Easter bonnets on Division Street / drawn by W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tourists buying coconuts and fruit from vendor, probably Nassau, Bahamas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Company trader buying white fox furs and other skins from an Eskimo at a Revillon Freres post. Credit: Library of Congress.

Peanut buying office in Enfield, North Carolina, largest open peanut market in U.S. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migrant steeple-jack buying a replacement connecting rod at secondhand automobile parts store. Prague, Oklahoma, Lincoln County. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us. (reference)

But if selling and buying disappears, free selling and buying disappears also. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is your soul that I am buying for you.

Buying a plow to plow your own children under, buying the arms and spirits that might have saved you.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You may save the expense of buying the wrong medication and avoid delay in treating your type of vaginitis. (references)

By obtaining the proper drugs in advance, the beleaguered traveler might avoid buying over-the-counter drugs abroad with potentially dangerous ingredients. (references)

Before buying a filtering device, the patient should rent one and use it in a closed room (the bedroom, for instance) for a month or two to see whether allergy symptoms diminish. (references)

Business

Not many buying groups operate in Italy. (references)

The primary factor in the end users’ buying decision is price. (references)

The major obstacle in buying U.S.-made equipment is its price. (references)

Children

India

Nearly 200 children were rescued from several orphanages that were involved in the buying and selling of children for adoption. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

The Government discouraged potential advertisers from buying advertising space in independent newspapers, which threatened their financial viability. (references)

Ukraine

The Constitution and the law provide for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, some minority and nontraditional religions continued to experience difficulties registering, and buying or leasing property at the local level, although there were fewer reports of such difficulties than in the past. (references)

Economic History

Spain

Regional characteristics influence buying patterns. (references)

Panama

Their buying patterns and tastes are similar to ours. (references)

India

Although in terms of buying power urban India would rate higher. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

Food meets minimal nutritional needs, and prisoners may supplement the diet by buying food. (references)

Bolivia

Prisoners who can afford to supplement the standard prison diet by buying food do so. The Government budgets only $0.32 (2 bolivianos) per prisoner per day for food. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

It is buying back much of this land, which was settled by mestizo peasants, and returning it to indigenous groups. (references)

Minorities

Bahrain

Without citizenship, bidoon legally had been prohibited from buying land, starting a business, or obtaining government loans. (references)

Congo

Societal ethnic discrimination was prevalent among virtually all ethnic groups, and was evident in private sector hiring, buying patterns, and de facto segregation of many urban neighborhoods. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

In March 2000, the High Court ruled on an October 1995 petition brought by an Arab couple who were barred from buying a home in Katzir, a Jewish municipality that was built on state-owned land. (references)

Political Economy

ECUADOR

The "Law on Generic Drugs", passed in 2000, forbids Government entities from buying branded pharmaceutical products. (references)

ITALY

Foreign companies are increasingly active in the Italian insurance market, opening branches or buying shares in Italian firms. (references)

BELGIUM

Ecotaxes: The Belgian government has adopted a series of ecotaxes in order to redirect consumer buying patterns towards materials seen as environmentally less damaging. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

There were no complaints that pressure and vote buying changed the outcome of the elections. (references)

Kenya

In January a by-election in South Mugirango, Nyanza Province, was marred by vote buying, ballot-stuffing, and violence. (references)

Thailand

The election process generally was viewed as free and fair; however, it was marred by widespread vote buying, a recurrent problem. (references)

Trade

Romania

Banks may use their own daily forex rate, when buying or selling foreign currency. (references)

Luxembourg

It will also not eliminate differences in consumer buying patterns or distribution channels. (references)

Nigeria

All banks are required to advise, on a daily basis, their autonomous buying and selling rates to the CBN's Director of Foreign Operations. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

Avoid buying bottled water from street vendors if possible. (references)

Spain

Spaniards tend to be "conservative" in their buying habits. (references)

Ireland

A vigorous and sustained promotion is often needed to launch products because of buying habits. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Press reports indicate that the buying and selling of brides persists in parts of the NWFP and Punjab. (references)

Mexico

Wages in most union contracts appeared to keep pace with or ahead of inflation, but most workers had not yet regained buying power lost over the past decade. (references)

Tajikistan

Traffickers may be prosecuted under laws prohibiting exploitation of prostitution, rape, kidnaping, buying and selling of minors, illegal limitations on arrival and departure in and out of the country, document fraud, and immigration violations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Buying

Buying

Expressions using "buying": bulk buying ♦ buying act ♦ buying and selling ♦ buying back ♦ buying behavior ♦ buying capacity ♦ buying department ♦ buying habit ♦ buying incentive ♦ buying motive ♦ buying off ♦ buying order ♦ buying power ♦ buying price ♦ buying rate ♦ buying season ♦ buying up ♦ call buying ♦ catalog buying ♦ forward buying ♦ go on a buying spree ♦ impulse buying ♦ installment buying ♦ instalment buying ♦ margin buying ♦ panic buying ♦ put buying ♦ scale buying ♦ time buying ♦ unplaneed buying ♦ with an eye to buying. Additional references.

Beginning with "buying": buying-in, buying-off, buying-out, buying-power.

Ending with "buying": book-buying, bulk-buying, house-buying, record-buying, vote-buying.

Afrikaans

koop (buy, purchase, take, take over, to buy). (various references)

Albanian

blerje (buy, purchase, purchasing). (various references)

Basque

erosten. (various references)

Bulgarian 

купуване (purchase). (various references)

Chinese 

购买. (various references)

Croatian

kupovanje. (various references)

Czech

nakupování (shopping), nákupy (messages), kupování. (various references)

Danish

marginkøb (margin buying), leverandoer (buying source, source of supply, supplier, vendor), koeberkurs (bid price, bid rate, buyers rate, buying price, buying rate), købspris (bid price, buying price, buying rate, original cost, purchase price), købsordre (buying order, order to buy, purchase order), købekraft (buying capacity, buying power, purchasing power), køb af købsoption (call buying, call purchase, long call, long call position), køb af call option (call buying, call purchase, long call, long call position), institutioner,hvis vigtigste funktion består i gennem en underskrift at garantere for veksler,der skal diskonteres (stockbrokers and jobbers principally acting as the other party in the buying and selling of securities), indkoebsforening (combined buying group, purchasing combine, purchasing group), forsyningskilde (buying source, source of supply), call-køb (call buying, call purchase, long call, long call position). (various references)

Dutch

kopen (acquire, buy, purchase, take over, to buy). (various references)

Estonian

ostmine. (various references)

Finnish

osto (purchase). (various references)

Flemish

kopen (buy, to buy). (various references)

French

acheter (buy, buy over, to buy), achat (buy). (various references)

Galician

mercar (buy), mercando. (various references)

German

Kaufen (bribe, buy, buy off, buy over, cash, fix, purchase, purchasing, shop, take, take over, to buy, to cash), kauf (bargain, buy, purchase, purchasing), erkaufend, einkaufend (shopping). (various references)

Greek 

εξαγορά (buying off, ransom, redemption, repurchase). (various references)

Haitian Creole

achte (shop, to buy). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקיחה (appropriation, take, taking), קניה (acquisition, buy, obtainment, possession, purchase). (various references)

Hungarian

vásárlás (acquisition, buy, purchase, shopping, taking over). (various references)

Icelandic

miðakaup (BUYING TICKETS, TICKET BUYING). (various references)

Indonesian

pembelian (buy, dicker, purchase, purchasing). (various references)

Irish

ceannach. (various references)

Italian

acquisto (acquisition, buy, purchase, purchasing, taking, taking over). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

買収　 (corruption, purchase), 買収 (bribery, corruption, purchase), 買い入れ (laying in, purchasing), 買い付け (purchasing), 買い上げ (purchasing), 買い (buyer, purchase). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばいしゅう (bribery, corruption, purchase), かいつけ (purchasing), かいいれ (laying in, purchasing), かいあげ (purchasing), かい (assembly, association, avail, being in between, buyer, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, paddle, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth). (various references)

Korean 

구입 (Purchase). (various references)

Luxembourgish

akafe. (various references)

Manx

kionnaghey (booking, buy, buy in, patronize, purchase, purchasing). (various references)

Pig Latin

uyingbay.(various references)

Portuguese

preço de oferta (bid price, bid rate, buyers rate, buying price, buying rate), poder de compra (buying capacity, buying power, purchasing power), ordem de compra (buying order, order to buy, purchase order), fonte de aprovisionamento (buying source, source of supply), câmbio de compra (bid price, buying price, buying rate), aquisição de uma opção de compra (call buying, call purchase, long call, long call position), agentes de câmbio e corretores de valores mobiliários cuja função principal consiste em actuarem como uma das partes nas compras e vendas de títulos (stockbrokers and jobbers principally acting as the other party in the buying and selling of securities), época de compras (buying season). (various references)

Romanian

târguialã (chaffer, haggling, shopping), cumpãrare (purchase). (various references)

Russian 

купля (purchase), покупать покупка. (various references)

Scottish

margadh (a market, buying and selling, market), malairt (an exchange, barter, buying and selling, exchange). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nabavka (acquisition, procurement, procuring, purchase, purveyance), kupovina (buy, purchase, shopping). (various references)

Slovene

nabavo. (various references)

Somali

iibsashada. (various references)

Spanish

comprar (acquire, buy, buy up, get, go in for, invest in, lay in, pick up, purchase, take over, to buy), comprando. (various references)

Swedish

uppköp (purchase), köpning, köpa (buy, purchase, secure, take over). (various references)

Tagalog

pagbili. (various references)

Tahitian

ho'ora'a. (various references)

Turkish

satın alma (buy, purchase), alma (acceptance, adoption, excision, extraction, grab, receipt, reception, taking), alim (bookman, erudite, knowing, learned, pundit, scholar, wise), alış (receiving, reception, taking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mua sắm tuỳ hứng (impulse buying), sự mua sắm bừa bâi (impulse buying). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "buying": nonbuying, outbuying, overbuying, rebuying, underbuying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Buying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bayings, beying, beyong, Bhuiyan, blying, boyan, boying, boyoing, bubinga, buyin, buyont, Byong, Muyinga, Ubinig, uying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bung, inby.

-3 letters: big, bin, bug, bun, buy, gib, gin, gnu, gun, guy, nib, nub, yin.

-4 letters: bi, by, in, nu, un.

+1 letter: buoying, burying, busying, rubying.

+2 letters: buddying, bullying, rebuying.

+3 letters: burningly, nonbuying, numbingly, outbuying, reburying, subwaying.

+4 letters: blurringly, blushingly, bouncingly, brutifying, bumblingly, bunglingly, bustlingly, butylating, doubtingly, fumblingly, humblingly, inarguably, lullabying, overbuying.

+5 letters: beautifying, beguilingly, bilingually, bodysurfing, fungibility, grumblingly, outbullying, stumblingly, unbudgingly, underbuying.