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Synonyms for buy

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : bahy
Phonetic Transcription : baɪ

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Définition of buy

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 something purchased
  • verb purchase
  • verb bribe
Example sentences :
  • Would you mind selling it to me if I will give you money enough to buy a new one?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Winter was near and he had no money to buy cloaks for his children.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • You know I do not care about money, except just to buy my clothes and things.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • There, some are tempted to buy; and some repent of having bought.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • She can't do it, and buy food and clothes, and pay room-rent and carfare.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • The business proposed was to buy a tract of land, and subdivide it.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • "It'll buy the old lady what she wants for the house, anyhow," he said.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • And he thought that, if it were to go very cheap, perhaps Rico could buy it.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • Could buy out old Scragmore a thousand times, and never feel it.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • I'm going to buy our supplies at that house, Stilly, if you have no objections.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

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