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buy English

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buy

If you buy something, you give money and the thing becomes yours. Could you buy some milk at the store? We sold the house and bought a small apartment near Lincoln Center. I stood in line all night to buy tickets for the show. My kids don't want to wear the clothes I buy for them. I can't afford to buy a new house. In 1960, Willard bought the business from his father. He bought the guitar for $150 on the internet. If money buys something, it is enough money to pay for it. $10 doesn't even buy a case of beer. $100 buys a nice dinner or a hotel for the night. If you buy (somebody) time, you stop something from happening soon so that you have time to prepare for it. She went to the washroom to buy time. She didn't want to answer before Kate arrived. If you buy an idea, you believe it. Your mother won't buy the story about getting lost. I can buy that your way works, but other ways might work too.

buy

A buy is something that someone has bought, usually for a cheap price. This dress was a good buy. It was on sale.

buy

(= purchase) 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 make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence This judge can be bought acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work accept as true I can't buy this story be worth or be capable of buying This sum will buy you a ride on the train (= bargain) an advantageous purchase she got a bargain at the auction the stock was a real buy at that price

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Conjugation buy conjugation

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buy · verb

Examples buy examples

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Simple sentences

If I get rich, I will buy it.
What did you buy?
I want to buy a Czech sweater.
I can't buy a book this expensive.
The price of gasoline is so high that we cannot buy a big car.
Did you buy it today or yesterday?
I must buy one.
I buy my silver from a man who has a mine on his property.
I'll buy a new one.
Some of the dolls are too expensive to buy.
It's a pity that you can't buy miracles like you would buy potatoes.
Someday I will buy a cotton candy machine.
Someday I'll buy a cotton candy machine.
I'm going to buy myself a new camera, digital this time.
Ah! If I were rich, I'd buy myself a house in Spain.
It's time for you to buy a new car.
Why do you want to buy this book?
Did you buy it on the black market?
You cannot buy that judge.

Movie subtitles

With that money, she can buy all the milk in the world and raise 1000 children!
Did he tell me to buy front leg?
Meet my poor mother, buy her pretty clothes, some kalbi meat, and a gorgeous house.
So how it actually works is. Buy something or get out!
And I wish I'd been with you to buy that crab necklace.
And did you buy one?
Where can a person buy poison oak, and what is the rashiest kind?
You can buy another one.
Just buy a new phone, Cooper.
How about I buy you a beer to celebrate, huh?
Never. That's where. Santa isn't mentioned in the Bible because he is the Devil's instrument designed to make people buy things with money that they don't have!
I shall have to go out in the morning and buy a whole new outfit.
I've never seen the point of slaving away making your own clothes, there's plenty of stuff you can buy in the shops.
Go buy a car like a normal person.
Arabs buy and sell women like cattle.
Want to buy some?
Buy them.
Buy them on credit.
Jesus Christ, if we're gonna lead together, let's lead together, which means you can't buy a building for you for your conscience.
Oh no, it would be much waste, I shall buy it.
The Jew will buy them and you will get money!
THOSE who buy for pennies and gain millions.
We always planned to buy a house when we would have enough money.
Our act is great. We're gonna make a lot of money. I'll buy you that house in the country.
Say. we could get that old bluff Chandler to buy a portrait from you.
Who wants to buy my mother-in-law's stocking?
Well, listen, Mama, I gonna go see if I can buy a horse.
We could buy EpiPens so the kids who are allergic could be safe.
Can you get your dad to buy you some?
Why would you come crying to me to buy you a drink at a time like this?
Before I go, I have to buy a garden shear.
Where will I be able to buy one?
If you earn a lot, why buy here? I'm comfortable here. And I think it's a good place to study.
I thought I would be able to buy it at the market price.
Before you start, you don't have to buy me champagne or a fur coat; just a simple thank you will suffice.
This is like the Bates Motel. - Just buy a new phone, Cooper.

News and current affairs

Terrorists might buy malware from criminals, and governments might find it useful to hide behind both.
While CFLs are more expensive to buy, they are much cheaper over their lifespan, because they use much less energy (even more so with the cost of CO2 factored into taxes on electricity).
Finally, allow countries that need a higher quota to buy it from those that emit less than their quota.
Households win, too, because they get to buy more and nicer things with their incomes.
A bankrupt warlord, after all, cannot buy weapons or bribe people to maintain their loyalty.
It seems clear that the European Central Bank will be forced to buy far greater quantities of eurozone sovereign (junk) bonds.
If Europe credibly volunteered funds to buy back all Greek debt, the Greek risk premium would disappear and private investors would be fully bailed out.
But what if the EFSF were to mimic Banco del Pacífico in a transparent way, say, by setting a threshold spread level above which it would fund buy-backs of any Greek bond in the market?
And Greenspan eschews paternalism: he would not assume the role of a regulator telling people that they cannot buy a house even though a lender is willing to finance it.
But, given the costs of the bankruptcy process, it has never been clear why a business would rather issue high-yield bonds (besides gaming the tax system), or why investors would rather buy them than take an equity stake.
And that is not something you want to buy.
And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are unable to buy assault weapons and 100-round clips.
It may make sense for central banks (or Fannie Mae, America's major government-sponsored mortgage company) to buy mortgage-backed securities in order to help provide market liquidity.
But those from whom they buy them should provide a guarantee, so the public does not have to pay the price for their bad investment decisions.
They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high-yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.
Farmers will be able to buy inputs, either out of their own cash, or by borrowing against their improved creditworthiness.
Liquidity injections and bailouts serve only one purpose - to buy time.
A nurse, Wangari counts on income from farming to raise money to buy more land - for more farming.
The default threat was a way to depress bond prices in secondary markets, only to buy them back at a discount through the back door.
If investors refuse to buy the debt on any terms, even a fiscally prudent government could find itself in a liquidity squeeze and become insolvent.
Allocate to each country a greenhouse gas emissions quota equal to the country's population, multiplied by the per person share. Finally, allow countries that need a higher quota to buy it from those that emit less than their quota.
Immigrants need to get to work and so they buy, sell, drive, and abandon cars in a parallel market.
The trick for an immigrant is to always buy cheap, because he never knows how long it will be before a car breaks down.
The true believers view the deficits as evidence that the world recognizes how special the US is and wants to buy in.