buy (original) (raw)
buy verb (PAY FOR)
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- buyI need to buy some new shoes.
- getI need to go to the supermarket and get some bread.
- purchaseShe purchased a new computer.
- pick something upCan you just pop in the shop and pick up some eggs?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
buy verb (BELIEVE)
She'll never buy that story about you getting lost!
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- believeCan we believe a word of what this man says?
- acceptMost people accept what the newspapers say as being correct.
- creditUK It’s hard to credit that she’s 87.
- swallowI personally find it hard to swallow the official narrative.
- buyWhen it comes to global warming, he doesn't buy it, and is out to discredit the whole theory.
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Phrasal verbs
(Definition of buy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
buy | American Dictionary
buy verb [T] (PAY FOR)
buy verb [T] (BELIEVE)
Idiom
Phrasal verbs
buy noun [C] (ACT OF BUYING)
(Definition of buy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of buy
buy
In this new luxury market paradigm a great number of people can buy luxury goods.
This ensures local stakeholder _buy_-in and that we do not invest in technology that is unlikely to be adopted.
The labourers could not buy these products at farm-gate prices.
Indeed, one referred to buying whole collections as part of his collection building process.
Consider the example of an electronic shopping mall, where consumers can buy various goods in different shops.
For some cities with water connections, households take a variety of defensive actions, such as buying bottled water and using electronic filter systems.
It is expressly designed for photocopying, however, so there is no need to buy pupil sets.
Many of those who bought such private pensions have since been found to have been wrongly advised.
Some books may have been bought for display alone.
These bids flowed down the chain from customer to supplier until most of the buy bids had filtered to the sellers.
As was mentioned earlier, newcomers who buy supplemental insurance must bear a waiting period, which is expected to discourage moves.
Money that had been spent on television and radio advertising was diverted to buy space in the print and outdoor media.
Moreover, his ' simplification ' of the number of prosodic layers buys him little in terms of elegance.
After buying a ticket, visitors are guided to the left, descending steps before they set out across the open landscape.
Every midday there was a long queue of people waiting to buy the excellent value, homemade food.
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