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  1. transitive verb To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. See Regional Note at boughten.
  2. transitive verb To be capable of purchasing: "Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy” (Ogden Nash).
  3. transitive verb To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade: wanted to buy love with gifts.
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  • Online works for me in Australia, DLC might be a problem (though I'm not sure, might work but you have to buy from the Asian store). —  Eurogamer
  • OEMs gear down for '07 slump; Next spike will' dwarf 'this pre-buy, analysts predict
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  • Right now, though, concerns about the economy make a credible case for a short-term buy: —  Fool.com: The Motley Fool
  • "We should not be buying all these weapons from the US, we can buy from the Russians if we must have aeroplanes and things like that," he added. —  Infidels Are Cool
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English bycgan.

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  1. Early modern English also buye, by, bie, bye, from Middle English buyen, byen, bien, beyen, biggen, buggen, etc., from Anglo-Saxon bycgan (preterit bohte, past participle boht) = Old Saxon buggean = Gothic (Moesogothic) bugjan (preterit bauhta), buy; not found in the other Teutonic tongues; connections doubtful. Hence in comp. aby, and by perversion abide, q. v.
 

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