Antonyms for buying
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : baɪ |
Definition of buying
Origin :- Old English bycgan (past tense bohte) "to buy, pay for, acquire; redeem, ransom; procure; get done," from Proto-Germanic *bugjanan (cf. Old Saxon buggjan, Old Norse byggja, Gothic bugjan), of unknown origin, not found outside Germanic.
- The surviving spelling is southwest England dialect; the word was generally pronounced in Old English and Middle English with a -dg- sound as "budge," or "bidge." Meaning "believe, accept as true" first recorded 1926. Related: Bought; buying. To buy time "prevent further deterioration but make no improvement" is attested from 1946.
- noun purchasing
- They'll bear the stocks all they can while they're buying up.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Well, I'm buying and she's selling, and we'll have that money back.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- In those days there was no possibility of buying all sorts of music ready printed.
- Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
- I suppose it was to save me the expense of buying a ticket for it.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- It is only a question of buying upon his part and of selling upon mine.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- Our rum now served us a better turn than ever, buying the Indians in a minute.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- His own people, whom he employs, are buying it up, and the vagabonds pocket the whole.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- He it was who inoculated Radville with the habit of buying manufactured candies.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- He has all leisure to give you, and enters into the innermost spirit of your buying.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- Taste may be displayed in writing, as well as in buying pictures.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
Synonyms for buying
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