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Princeton's WordNet

  1. buying, purchasingnoun

    the act of buying

    "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"

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  1. buying

    Buying is the act of obtaining or purchasing goods, services, or assets in exchange for money or some other agreed-upon value. This transaction typically occurs in a marketplace, between a buyer and a seller, and can be completed in a physical store, online, or between individuals.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Buying

    of Buy

Editors Contribution

  1. buyingverb

    Verb form of the word buy.

    We were buying our wedding invitations online and decided then just to send a group message where needed and text message to friends or family.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'buying' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2795

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'buying' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1230

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of buying in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of buying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of buying in a Sentence

  1. Scott Minerd:

    There's a point where The Fed is going to have to pull out a bazooka, and I think the option of buying stocks on the part of The Fed is on the table.

  2. Paula Kane:

    The bishops' first reaction was to say that things look bad, but they did all we could, but lay people aren't buying that. The trust between the church's hierarchy and the people in the pews has been destroyed.

  3. Todd Rosenbluth:

    What we've seen this year is some of these stocks perform excellently, and some of them don't, but you're not buying this to offset the winners and the laggards in cyber security.

  4. Oliver Talbot:

    They are fighting wars on a huge number of fronts, i think to a large extent it's about stalling and buying time, allowing them to operate for as long as it takes for regulations to come into place.

  5. Takis Zamanis:

    Buyers emerged for non-bank stocks, blue chips like OTE Telecom and (gaming group) OPAP, which shows that there is buying interest out there.

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