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 nearby buy
butyryl,
butyryl group,
buxom,
buxtehude,
buxton,
buy,
buy a pig in a poke,
buy boat,
buy in,
buy into,
buy it
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 EdwardsWe 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