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Definition: Buy |
BuyNoun1. An advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price". Verb1. 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". 2. Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "buy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | (1) to acquire ownership of something in exchange for money. (2) The quality of a purchase, as "It is a good buy." (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Trade is the exchange of goods or services among two or more parties. In its original form trade had to be negotiated through barter and the exchange of goods and services of a recognized equal value that was wanted by both parties. Modern trade is generally negotiated through the use of a medium of exchange, i.e. money, and rarely through barter: as a result one can separate buying and earning or selling. The invention of money greatly simplified and promoted the development of trade.
History
See also: International trade, Trade bloc, Business, Retail, Arms trade.
- Internal and External Trade History
- Barter
- Silent trade
- Introduction of Money
- The Silk Route
- The Age of Discovery
- Mercantilism
- Trans-Atlantic Triangular Trade
- Capitalism
- Innovations in transport
- Colonialism and neo-colonialism
- Protectionism and free trade
- The World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- Commodities, Goods and Intellectual Property
- Globalisation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trade."
Synonyms: BuySynonyms: bargain (n), steal (n), bribe (v), corrupt (v), purchase (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sell (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Barter | Trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in. |
Speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the market; rig the market, stag the market. | |
Cheapness | Buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song; have one's money's worth. |
Death | Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed). |
Intention | Speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards. |
Mart | Verb: speculate, invest, trade, trade stocks, play the market; buy long, sell short, take a position, straddle; take a plunge, plunge in, take a flier. |
Purchase | Verb: buy, purchase, invest in, procure; rent; (hire); repurchase, buy in. |
Make a purchase, complete a purchase; buy over the counter. | |
Rashness | Take a leap in the dark, buy a pig in a poke. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Buy |
| English words defined with "buy": buy into ♦ To buy off, To buy out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "buy": Buy Over ♦ order to buy ♦ to buy up. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "buy": Underbuy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Buy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Sranan (bracelet). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wanna buy a monkey (Cabin Boy; writing credit: Adam Resnick) When I was your age, I flipped burgers just to be able to buy an eight-track (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Well you can't buy people (Indecent Proposal; writing credit: Amy Holden Jones) You got cash, you can buy court justice (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Dad, you buy that bleary business (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) | |
Lyrics | Give it up baby, baby mama can't buy you love (Mama Can't Buy You Love; performing artist: Elton John; writing credit: Leroy Bell and Casey James) I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (Can't Buy Me Love (Lennon/McCartney); performing artist: The Beatles) I'm gonna buy me a dog, (Gonna Buy Me a Dog; performing artist: The Monkees) You can buy another (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC) And go out and buy you a gun (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) | |
Clever | We have the best government that money can buy. (references; author: Mark Twain) If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? (references; author: unknown) My parents worked hard to give us everything money could not buy. (references; author: unknown) With money, I can buy things; with thinking, I can understand things. (references; author: unknown) Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bid 'n' Buy (1958) I'll Buy That (1953) Something Money Can't Buy (1952) So You Want to Buy a Used Car (1951) Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) | |
Song Titles | Gonna Buy Me A Dog (performing artist: The Monkees) Buy For Me The Rain (performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) Can't Buy Me Love (performing artist: The Beatles) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Shown are the supermarket shelf labels indicating foods that are high in fiber and/or low in fat. This is part of a cooperative study of NCI and Giant Foods to try to change shoppers' buying habits to buy foods higher in fiber and lower in fats to help prevent cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | "Buy boat" ROBERT LEE docked at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership to transplant oyster spat to permanent oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A "buy boat" operating on the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Pioneer Festival Scene with oxen and buy at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff. |
 | Didn't you buy the piano player on the installment plan?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, hey?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Just another day -- to buy bonds. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Moral -- buy bonds and vote no. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New Yorkers eager for news of the Cuban crisis line up to buy newspapers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Harlem mass meeting re Hillburn [case] raised enough to buy school books / photoprint by Rapid Newsphoto Service. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Have to buy some food..." by Carlos P. Commentary: "..." | "City at the water" by Martin Manegold Commentary: "The place I would like to buy a summerhouse. Somewhere between Nice and Antibes in Southern France." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Coin; counter; purchase; purchasing; buying; buy; bought. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Most authors steal their works, or buy. |
Demosthenes | I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas. |
Henny Youngman | You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. |
Henry David Thoreau | Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. |
Ilka Chase | America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. |
James Russell Lowell | The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market. |
Josh Billings | Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. |
Shakespeare | They lose the world who buy it, with much care. |
Spike Milligan | Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Go and buy it, and tell em to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You would have to buy him too, for nobody knows you. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Buy that lovely bunch |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | How do you buy a car |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | If you give him money, he will perhaps buy more rags with it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Soon, you will be able to buy new products. (references) | |
You can buy nail-strengthening products in a drug store. (references) | ||
Many consumers are quite willing to buy irradiated foods. (references) | ||
Business | They also buy more travel insurance. (references) | |
Of these, only 2% buy over the Internet. (references) | ||
Many large-scale PC shops buy directly from distributors. (references) | ||
Children | Guatemala | A similar press report on July 2 reported that police apprehended "baby stealers" who allegedly tried to buy, and then steal the baby of a mother as she was leaving the hospital. (references) |
Sweden | The parents of children with disabilities and workers with disabilities under the age of 65 receive financial assistance every 7 years to buy a car adapted to the person's disability. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Moldova | Unregistered religions cannot buy land or obtain construction permits for churches or seminaries. (references) |
Economic History | Poland | Poles prefer to buy imported toys. (references) |
Moldova | U.S. companies may rent or buy office equipment locally. (references) | |
Ecuador | The law mandates that Government entities buy only generic drugs. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | In addition plea-bargaining reportedly is perceived by many citizens as a way for the wealthy to buy their way out of charges. (references) |
Tunisia | An individual must have an identity card to sign a lease, to buy or drive a car, to receive access to healthcare, bank accounts, and pensions, and even to join a sports club. (references) | |
Russia | Some were able to buy their way out by paying an immediate levy, depending on the validity of their identification documents; cleansings also are a means for military and police personnel operating in Chechnya to supplement their incomes. (references) | |
Political Economy | JORDAN | Banks may buy or sell an unlimited amount of foreign currency on a forward basis. (references) |
SWEDEN | Foreigners may buy and sell any corporate share listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. (references) | |
ALGERIA | Private and public importers may buy foreign exchange from commercial banks for commercial transactions provided they can pay for hard currency in dinars. (references) | |
Political Rights | Nigeria | Early in the year, members of the executive branch allegedly attempted to remove Speaker Ghali Na'abba; however, evidence of widespread fraud and corruption in the attempt to buy votes for the removal of Na'abba forced the executive branch to abandon the effort. (references) |
Trade | Poland | Polish companies may utilize zloty earnings to buy foreign currency to pay for imports. (references) |
Panama | These countries (including Colombia) buy approximately 50% of all exports from the CFZ. (references) | |
Travel | Venezuela | Venezuelan importers prefer to buy directly from the manufacturer, instead of going through intermediaries. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | The investment enabled the railway company to buy new passenger trains and wagons, and renovate the existing rail network. (references) | |
Women | Botswana | A woman married under traditional law or in "common property" is held to be a legal minor, requiring her husband's consent to buy or sell property, apply for credit, and enter into legally binding contracts. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | Rugmark has 228 exporter members who buy carpets from the 28,118 looms registered with Rugmark. (references) |
Kuwait | Visa trading has resulted in growing numbers of unemployed foreign workers who buy visas to enter the country and then are unable to find work. (references) | |
Paraguay | Antelco workers seeking to buy the telephone utility conducted strikes throughout the year to press for favorable terms in the upcoming privatization. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BABE or :BABY:, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf. Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be 'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. Ro Amil |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Then buy one-you've earned it. |
Don Imus | I buy all of those fights. Like my brother says, it's great satisfaction when you can see on the screen that says, you are authorized for this program. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Once you have a life that they think that they know about, if you do anything that's different from what they perceive, they're not going to buy it. So it makes it hard to do standup once you're known. |
Rush Limbaugh | But if you buy the liberal idea that wanting to keep the money you earn and spending it on meeting your own needs, that's exactly what you're doing! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Returning veterans often cannot find a satisfactory place for their families to live, and many who buy have to pay exorbitant prices. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Well, I don't believe we should buy their argument. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Once building starts, carpenters and plumbers work, people buy homes and take out mortgages. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let's make sure that self-employed people and small businesses can buy insurance at more affordable rates through voluntary purchasing pools. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | See, by ending double taxation of dividends, we will increase the return on investing, which will draw more money into the markets to provide capital to build factories, to buy equipment, hire more people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Buy" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.66% of the time. "Buy" is used about 12,316 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 76.66% | 9,441 | 1,010 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.01% | 2,710 | 3,390 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.33% | 164 | 24,408 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12,316 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Best Buy Co Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "buy": a good buy ♦ buy a pig in a poke ♦ buy a quantity of ♦ buy a shilling's worth of sweets ♦ buy and hold ♦ buy at ♦ buy at an auction ♦ buy back ♦ buy cheap junk ♦ buy cloth by the yard ♦ buy food ♦ buy for a song ♦ buy for an old song ♦ buy for smb. ♦ buy forward ♦ buy goods by the tally ♦ buy in ♦ buy insurance ♦ buy into ♦ buy it ♦ buy off ♦ buy off a witness ♦ buy on account ♦ buy on credit ♦ buy on hire purchase ♦ buy on the installment plan ♦ buy on the instalment plan ♦ buy on tick ♦ buy or sow ♦ buy out ♦ buy outright ♦ buy over ♦ buy over the counter ♦ buy smb. drink ♦ buy smb. meal ♦ buy smth. cheap ♦ buy smth. cheep ♦ buy smth. for nothing ♦ buy smth. on hire purchase ♦ buy smth. unseen ♦ buy smth. unsighted ♦ buy the farm ♦ buy time ♦ buy up ♦ can i buy ..? ♦ club together to buy smth. ♦ good buy ♦ i'll buy it ♦ obligation to buy ♦ order to buy ♦ straddle buy ♦ synthetic long buy ♦ To buy again ♦ to buy for a rise ♦ to buy gapeseed ♦ To buy in ♦ To buy off ♦ To buy on credit ♦ To buy out ♦ To buy the refusal ♦ to buy up ♦ try to buy time. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "buy": buy-and-hold, buy-back, buy-back, buy-backs, buy-direct, buy-down, buy-in, buy-in-bulk, buy-ins, buy-mart, buy-off, buy-of-the-season, buy-out, buy-out, buy-outs, buy-price, buy-up, buy-ups. | |
Ending with "buy": re-buy, right-to-buy, Safe-buy. | |
Containing "buy": if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-georgian-manor-house-in-the-country. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
best buy | 73,890 | buy dvd | 695 |
buy book online | 4,959 | gm buy power | 683 |
buy movie | 4,102 | buy business | 660 |
buy car online | 3,480 | buy computer | 647 |
buy and sell | 3,417 | buy book | 646 |
buy | 2,905 | buy cds | 629 |
buy a car | 2,721 | buy viagra online | 572 |
buy owner | 2,024 | buy concert ticket | 565 |
best buy store | 1,706 | buy domain | 514 |
buy a house | 1,463 | buy phentermine | 504 |
buy used car | 1,452 | buy stock | 492 |
buy home | 1,243 | buy and hold | 431 |
buy buy baby | 1,223 | buy new car | 414 |
buy star | 1,129 | meridia buy | 405 |
best buy com | 1,006 | buy xenical | 397 |
buy art | 963 | buy dvd movie | 385 |
best buy canada | 828 | buy domain name | 381 |
buy viagra | 825 | buy digital camera | 363 |
buy music | 702 | best buy coupon | 362 |
buy direct | 696 | buy.com coupon | 361 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "buy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | koop (buying, purchase, take, take over, to buy), aanskaf (purchase, take, take over), aankoop (acquisition, purchase, take, take over, taking, taking over). (various references) | |
Albanian | blej (corrupt, nobble, purchase, shop, take). (various references) | |
Arabic | فدية (pay off, ransom), صفقة رابحة (bargain, good buy, steal), صفقة (bargain, cuff, deal, package, purchase, transaction, turn), إفتدى (redeem), إشترى (cover, purchase, take, take up), أمن ب, رشا (bribe, corrupt, grease the palm, oil, square, suborn, tamper), شراء (purchase, purchasing). (various references) | |
Asturian | mercar (to buy). (various references) | |
Aymara | alaña (to buy). (various references) | |
Basque | erosi (buy to). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukushita (to buy). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ohpommaa (to buy). (various references) | |
Breton | prenañ (to buy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съгласявам се (accede to, acquiesce, agree, assent, comply, concur, consent, grant, jibe, say the word, see, yield), скъпо заплащам за нещо, купувам (book, bought, cop, deal, get, invest, pick up, purchase, trade), накупувам (buy up), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield), покупка (bargain, purchase), получавам като наказание, подкупвам (bribe, buy over, corrupt, disarm, fix up, get at, grease, hand out bribes, lubricate, suborn). (various references) | |
Catalan | comprar (purchase, take over, to buy). (various references) | |
Cebuano | magpalit (to buy). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma fahan (to buy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 買 , 採買 (purchase), 沽 (sell), 收买. (various references) | |
Cornish | prena (to buy). (various references) | |
Croatian | kupiti. (various references) | |
Czech | koupit (get, to buy). (various references) | |
Danish | købe (purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Dutch | kopen (acquire, buying, purchase, take over, to buy), aankopen (acquire, purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | rantina (to buy). (various references) | |
Esperanto | provizi sin per (get, procure), havigi al si (get, procure), a’eti, aĉeti (purchase), aĉetakiri (acquire, purchase). (various references) | |
Estonian | osta (to buy). (various references) | |
Faeroese | keypa (purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Farsi | تطمیع کردن (Allure, Bribe), خریدن , خرید (Purchase), ابتیاع (Purchase). (various references) | |
Finnish | ostaa (purchase, take over, to buy). (various references) | |
Flemish | kopen (buying, to buy). (various references) | |
French | acheter (buy over, buying, to buy), achat (buying). (various references) | |
French Canadian | acheter (to buy). (various references) | |
Frisian | oantuge (get, procure, purchase, take over), oanriede (advise, counsel, get, procure, purchase, take over), oankeapje (purchase, take over), oanhannelje (purchase, take over), keap (acquisition, purchase, taking over). (various references) | |
Galician | mercar (buying). (various references) | |
German | kaufen (bribe, buy off, buy over, buying, cash, fix, purchase, purchasing, shop, take, take over, to buy, to cash), einkaufen (buy in, purchase, shop, shopping, take over, to purchase, to shop). (various references) | |
Greek | αγοράζω (purchase). (various references) | |
Guarani | ajoguase (I want to buy), ajogua (I buy). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | achte (buying, shop, to buy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקנות (acquire, own, possess, purchase, shop), קניה (acquisition, buying, obtainment, possession, purchase). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vétel (acquisition, over, pick-up, purchase, receiving, reception, registration, seizure), vesz (bought, get, lay hold of, oppress, pick up, press, purchase, squeeze, take, take over, taken, to buy, to commune, to fence, to gibe, to list, to nick, to put in an appearance, to re-enter, to scorn, to take, to wed, took). (various references) | |
Icelandic | kaupa (purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berbelanja (shop), beli, pembelian (buying, dicker, purchase, purchasing), menyogok (bribe), membeli (obtain with, purchase). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | niuviqtuq (to buy). (various references) | |
Irish | ceannaigh (acquire, purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Italian | comprare (acquire, bribe, corrupt, market, purchase, take, take over, to buy), comperare (acquire, purchase, shopping, take, take over), acquistare (acquire, gain, get, obtain, purchase, take). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 購買 (purchase), 購入 (purchase). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), こうばい (grade, gradient, incline, pitch, public auction, public sale, purchase, red-blossomed plum tree, slope), こうにゅう (purchase). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-sumba (to buy). (various references) | |
Korean | 구매 (Purchasing). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | kafen. (various references) | |
Macedonian | kupuva (to buy). (various references) | |
Manx | kionneeaght (purchase, redemption, traffic), kionnaghey (booking, buy in, buying, patronize, purchase, purchasing). (various references) | |
Maori | hoko-na mai (to buy). (various references) | |
Maya | man (to buy). (various references) | |
Mohawk | -hninons (to buy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjøpe (purchase, take over, to buy, to purchase). (various references) | |
Occitan | crompar. (various references) | |
Papago | nolawt (to buy). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kumpra (acquire, purchase, take over), kompra (acquisition, purchase, taking over). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uybay.(various references) | |
Polish | zakup (acquisition, purchase, taking over), kupno (acquisition, purchase, taking over), kupić (purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Portuguese | comprar (acquire, deal, get, go shopping, purchase, take over, to buy), compra (acquisition, purchase, taking, taking over). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | comprar (to buy). (various references) | |
Provencal | crompar (to buy). (various references) | |
Romanian | târgui, rãscumpãra la o licitaţie, mitui (bribe, buy over, corrupt, gild, gratify, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil smb.'s palms, palm, suborn), cumpåra (purchase, take over), cumpãrãturã (purchase), cumpãra (bribe, buy off, purchase, reserve, Square), achiziţiona (acquire, buy in, collect, get, purchase, secure). (various references) | |
Romansch | cumprar (to buy). (various references) | |
Romany | tsinàva (to buy). (various references) | |
Ruanda | kugura (to buy). (various references) | |
Russian | покупать (acquire, bought, get, purchase, take over), купить (acquire, purchase, take over). (various references) | |
Samoan | e faatau (to buy). (various references) | |
Scottish | ceannaich (purchase, take over). ( |
