Idioms for buy

    buy it, Slang. to get killed: He bought it at Dunkirk.

Origin of buy

before 1000; Middle English byen, variant of byggen, buggen, Old English bycgan; cognate with Old Saxon buggjan, Gothic bugjan to buy, Old Norse byggja to lend, rent

synonym study for buy

1. Buy, purchase imply obtaining or acquiring property or goods for a price. Buy is the common and informal word, applying to any such transaction: to buy a house, vegetables at the market. Purchase is more formal and may connote buying on a larger scale, in a finer store, and the like: to purchase a year's supplies.

OTHER WORDS FROM buy

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH buy

buy by bye

Example sentences from the Web for buyable

  • These lands are said to be marketable (buyable) at about ten dollars (Mexican) per acre, say four dollars in United States money.

    On the Mexican Highlands |William Seymour Edwards
  • We buy what is saleable of it; nothing more was ever buyable.

    Past and Present |Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for buyable

buy
/ (baɪ) /

verb buys, buying or bought (mainly tr)

noun

a purchase (often in the phrases good or bad buy)

Word Origin for buy

Old English bycgan; related to Old Norse byggja to let out, lend, Gothic bugjan to buy

usage for buy

The use of off after buy as in I bought this off my neighbour was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable in informal contexts