Synonyms:
buying, purchasing
Meaning: the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"
Usage examples
A time for shopkeepers to sell and for foolish folks to kill themselves in buying.
It serves my father right for not buying me my gloves." That was Ronald's state of mind.
One was very unpleasant, from a merchant who was buying a forest on his wife's property.
If you're buying pictures, there's an end to it--you get your walls covered sooner or later.
Then she scanned me up and down, as if I were a girl in a mantle shop, and she contemplated buying either me or the mantle.
Half his salary went on buying books, and of the six rooms that made up his abode three were heaped up with books and old magazines.
Lord Yarsfield--a very old customer--talks of buying an estate in Wales; he may come down upon us at any moment for a very stiff sum of money.
He has two means of extricating me from this dilemma,--the one by a mysterious escape, managed through bribery; the other by buying off my judges with gold.
Toby wanted peace so as he could go about the Reservation buying his oils. But most of the white men wished for war, and they was angry because the President wouldn't give the sign for it.
Many of the negroes of Africa, make it for themselves--burning the charcoal, gathering saltpetre from salt-pans, and buying the sulphur from trading caravans: they grind the materials on a stone.