BUYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buying mean? 

• BUYING (noun)
  The noun BUYING has 1 sense:

1. the act of buying

  Familiarity information: BUYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of buying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

buying; purchasing

Context example:

shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge

Hypernyms ("buying" is a kind of...):

purchase (the acquisition of something for payment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buying"):

shopping (searching for or buying goods or services)

catalog buying; mail-order buying (buying goods to be shipped through the mail)

viatication; viaticus (purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders)

Derivation:

buy (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

 Context examples 

And, furthermore, they bought good stuff, too, for were they not buying his?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lifestyle changes like moving, buying, selling, or renting property, or renovating, making repairs, or decorating often require a considerable outlay of cash.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He has been buying things for children, you perceive.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Why, you see, the girls are always buying them, and unless you want to be thought mean, you must do it too.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Secondly, growers would spend less on buying and applying chemicals—a major part of their overhead cost.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior: and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A good way to tell if you're buying a cosmetic that is also a drug is to see if the first ingredient listed is an "active ingredient."

(Cosmetics, Food and Drug Administration)

For you, drug safety means buying online from only legitimate pharmacies and taking your medicines correctly.

(Drug Safety, NIH)

I have heard my sister say so forty times, when she has been extravagant in buying more than she wanted, or careless in cutting it to pieces.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)