Dictionary Definition
buy n : an advantageous purchase; "she got a
bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price"
[syn: bargain, steal]
Verb
1 obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a
financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The
conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big
department store" [syn: purchase] [ant: sell]
2 make illegal payments to in exchange for favors
or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: bribe, corrupt, grease
one's palms]
3 acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She
wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his
work"
4 accept as true; "I can't buy this story"
5 be worth or be capable of buying; "This sum
will buy you a ride on the train" [also: bought]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From bycġan, which is cognate with Gothic bugjan. Both are ultimately from Appendix:Proto-Indo-European roots#*bh.Verb
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (obtain (something) in exchange for money): sell, vend
- (accept as true): disbelieve, reject, pitch
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to obtain for money
- Albanian: blej
- Amharic: መግዛት
- Arabic: اشتر
- Armenian: գնել (gnel)
- Cantonese: 買 (ma̋ai)
- Catalan: comprar
- Chinese: 买 (mǎi)
- Czech: kupovat
- Danish: købe
- Dutch: kopen, aanschaffen
- Esperanto: aĉeti
- Estonian: ostma
- Finnish: ostaa
- French: acheter
- German: kaufen
- Goth: bugjan
- Guarani: jogua
- Hausa: sáyṓ
- Hebrew: לקנות (liqnot)
- Hungarian: vásárol, vesz
- Indonesian: beli
- Interlingua: comprar, emer
- Irish: ceannaigh
- Italian: comprare
- Japanese: 買う (かう, kau), 購入する (こうにゅうする, kōnyūsuru)
- Korean: 사다 (sa.da)
- Kurdish: kirrîn, standin,
- Latin: emere
- Maltese: xtara
- Norwegian: kjøpe
- Polish: kupić / kupować
- Portuguese: comprar, adquirir
- Romanian: a cumpăra
- Russian: покупать (pokupatʹ) / купить (kupitʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: ceannaich
- Serbian: kupiti, kupovati, pokupovati
- Sicilian: accattari
- Slovene: kupiti
- Somali: gado, iibso
- Spanish: comprar
- Swahili: kununua
- Swedish: köpa
- Tagalog: bumilí, bilhin
- Tamazight: seγ, aγ
- Vietnamese: mua
- Viking: kaupa/byggja
- West Frisian: keapje
to accept as true
- Albanian: blej
- German: abkaufen
- Hebrew: לקנות (liqnot)
- Kurdish: pejirandin, qebûl kirin
- Serbian: prihvatiti
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- ttbc Vietnamese: mua, trã bằng giá, đạt được, được, mua chuộc, đút lót, hối lộ, sự mua, vật mua
References
Extensive Definition
Buy may refer to:
- Trade, voluntary exchange of goods, services, or both
- Buy (town), a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia
- Buy (album), a 1979 album by James White and the Contortions
- Buy.com, a shopping website
buy in French: BUY
buy in Italian: BUY
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abide by, accede, accept, accept for gospel, accept
implicitly, acclaim,
acquiesce, acquiesce
in, acquire,
advantageous purchase, agree, agree to, agree with,
applaud, approach, assent, bargain, be certain, believe, believe without
reservation, bribe, buy
back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, buying, buying power, buying up,
catalog buying, cheer,
coemption, complete a
purchase, comply,
consent, consumer power,
consumer sovereignty, consumerism, corner, cornering, corrupt, credit, emption, engross, fix, get, get at, get to, give faith to,
give the nod, good buy, good pennyworth, grease, grease the palm, hail, have, hire purchase, hold with,
impulse buying, in toto, installment buying, lubricate, mail-order buying,
make a buy, marketing,
money illusion, monopolize, nod, nod assent, obtain, pay off, pennyworth, procure, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power,
put faith in, reach,
rebuy, rebuying, receive, redeem, regrate, repurchase, set store by,
shopping, shopping
spree, sop, square, steal, suborn, subscribe to, swallow, take, take care of, take for
granted, take kindly to, take on faith, take on trust, take stock
in, tamper with, tickle the palm, trust, vote for, welcome, window-shopping,
yes, yield
assent