buying
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buying
- present participle and gerund of buy
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Noun
buying (countable and uncountable, plural buyings)
- The act of making a purchase.
- 1707, A General Discourse of Commerce, page 126:
- […] Reckonings of all and every his Dealings, Doings, Buyings and Sellings and Employments, touching and concerning the Premises […]
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 37:
- "He's hanging back to make an excuse of going to town for the spring buying, and it won't do."