BUY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of buy in English
buy verb
(PAY FOR )
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buy verb
(BELIEVE )
She'll never buy that story about you getting lost !
believe Can we believe a word of what this man says? accept Most people accept what the newspapers say as being correct. credit UK swallow I personally find it hard to swallow the official narrative. buy When it comes to global warming, he doesn't buy it, and is out to discredit the whole theory.
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(Definition of buy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of buy
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In this new luxury market paradigm a great number of people can buy luxury goods.
This ensures local stakeholder buy -in and that we do not invest in technology that is unlikely to be adopted.
The labourers could not buy these products at farm-gate prices.
Indeed, one referred to buying whole collections as part of his collection building process.
Consider the example of an electronic shopping mall, where consumers can buy various goods in different shops.
For some cities with water connections, households take a variety of defensive actions, such as buying bottled water and using electronic filter systems.
It is expressly designed for photocopying, however, so there is no need to buy pupil sets.
Many of those who bought such private pensions have since been found to have been wrongly advised.
Some books may have been bought for display alone.
These bids flowed down the chain from customer to supplier until most of the buy bids had filtered to the sellers.
As was mentioned earlier, newcomers who buy supplemental insurance must bear a waiting period, which is expected to discourage moves.
Money that had been spent on television and radio advertising was diverted to buy space in the print and outdoor media.
Moreover, his ' simplification ' of the number of prosodic layers buys him little in terms of elegance.
After buying a ticket, visitors are guided to the left, descending steps before they set out across the open landscape.
Every midday there was a long queue of people waiting to buy the excellent value, homemade food.
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Translations of buy
in Chinese (Traditional)
為…付款, 買，購買, 相信…
in Chinese (Simplified)
为…付款, 买，购买, 相信…
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comprar, sobornar, adquirir…
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comprar, acreditar…
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satın almak, (satın) almak…
ஏதேனும் ஒன்றிற்கு பணம் செலுத்துவதன் மூலம் பெறுதல்…
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