1. To negotiate, or treat about a purchase.
2. I will buy with you and sell with you.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
2. To acquire the property, right or title to any thing, by paying a consideration or an equivalent in money. It differs from barter only in this, that in barter the consideration or equivalent is some species of commodity; in purchase, the consideration is money paid or promised. To purchase; to acquire by paying a price to the satisfaction of the seller; opposed to sell.
3. To procure by a consideration given, or by something that is deemed worth the thing bought; to procure at a price; as, to buy pleasure with praise; to buy favor with flattery.
5. To buy off, to influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration, as to buy off conscience; to detach by a consideration given, as to buy off one from a party.
6. To buy out, to buy off, or detach from.
7. To purchase the share or shares of a person in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place, as, A buys out B. To purchase stock in any fund or partnership, is to buy in.
8. To buy on credit, is to purchase a thing, on a promise in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.
9. To buy the refusal, is to give money for the right of purchasing at a fixed price at a future time.
10. To buy the small pox, in South Wales, is to receive it by inoculation.
1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
One who buys; a purchaser.
One who buys; a purchaser.
Purchasing.
Purchase Roget’s Thesaurus §795
N. purchase, emption, buying, purchasing, # shopping, preemption, refusal, coemption, bribery, slave trade, buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee, patron, employer, client, customer, clientele
V. buy, purchase, invest in, procure, rent, repurchase, buy in, keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn, pay, spend, make a purchase, complete a purchase, buy over the counter, shop, market, go shopping
Adj. purchased
Phr. caveat emptor, the customer is always right
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70 KJV and 60 BSB verses contain “Buy” — showing the first 20. Show all 86 verses (searchable)
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.