BUY

Meaning of BUY in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bargain buy

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This remains a bargain buy at £3.99.

an impulse buy (= buying something without having planned it )

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She admitted that the necklace had been an impulse buy.

bought...freehold

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They bought the freehold of their house.

bought...new

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I got a used video camera for £300 – it would have cost £1,000 if I’d bought it new.

bought...on HP

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We bought the carpets on HP .

buy a flat

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I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine.

buy a house

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We bought this house when Liam was just a baby.

buy a ticket

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Sheila bought a ticket for the next flight home.

buy insurance

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You can buy insurance against risks of all kinds.

buy sb a present ( also get sb a present informal )

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I want to buy a present for Lucy but I'm not sure what she'd like.

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Did you get Bill a birthday present?

buy sth on the Internet

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He bought the chairs on the Internet.

buy/get sb a drink (= in a pub or a bar )

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It’s my turn to buy you a drink.

buy/get sth on credit

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They bought all their furniture on credit.

buying/spending habits (= the kinds of things you buy regularly )

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The recession will mean that many people will be changing their spending habits.

buy/invest in shares

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I bought some shares in British Gas five years ago.

buy/rent an apartment

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Tom rented an apartment at the top of the building.

buy/sell (a) property

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Buying a property is a complicated business.

get/buy sth second hand

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We got most of our furniture second hand.

take out/buy a policy (= arrange it )

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People with children should take out a life insurance policy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

back

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A country is required within 3 - 5 years to repurchase its drawings through buying back its own currency with foreign currencies.

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Now that same land would have to be bought back at considerable cost to the taxpayers.

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First was Jacqui Dixon with £30,000 in used notes to buy back her surrogate son, a vacant-looking child.

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I was buying back his trust, I knew.

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The council had no legal obligation to buy back the property and previous repurchases were virtually unheard of.

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The company will use the money to buy back short-term, high-interest debt.

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Third, an Esop can be used to buy back shares from existing employee shareholders.

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Time Warner and Turner end talks on Turner buying back a 19. 4 % stake.

■ NOUN

car

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Forget house improvements; her next priority would be to buy a car , Ashley decided.

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He bought cars , a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle, boats, travel trailers and expensive pickups.

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When it was offered for sale 1,500 people applied to buy the car and it was sold out within 2 days.

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Or they might have bought a car instead, giving employment to auto workers.

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If Brian agrees to buy the car , then changes his mind, can he withdraw his acceptance?

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For example, in buying a motor car a person is buying such things as luxury or speed or economy or status.

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I could refuse to buy her a car , but I could not insist that she feel some affection for me.

company

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In other words, might not loyalty in large companies be bought by promises of job security?

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His grandfather Henry believed that people helped companies raise capital by buying their stock.

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Fuji Bank and its securities company bought more than a third of the new bonds sold.

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I also know that sterling exchange rates don't favour those companies buying on the international market.

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To get around this problem, cable companies are actually buying movie production houses.

customer

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Pub customers do not just buy their beer.

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On the other hand, a customer could buy enough sand for 200 bags for only $ 9. 50.

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Once the customer decides to buy the software, Hewlett provides a password over the phone granting a permanent licence.

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All three knew well that customers buying computers needed some way to make them work together.

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Around 100 companies all over Britain are giving away Air Miles vouchers to customers who buy their products and services.

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They know it takes time and repeat exposure to get customers to buy new products.

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What you do have to understand is what motivates a customer to buy a small green apple as opposed to a large red one.

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And that will spur more customers to buy phones.

goods

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You pay it only if you buy the goods .

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Sales of electronics and batteries here mirror the international trend toward buying cordless, portable goods .

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Further, the buyer must have made known to the seller the particular purpose for which he was buying the goods .

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A cooperative had also been established where blacks could buy goods more cheaply.

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People will rush to buy goods and assets before their prices rise further.

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The trouble is, you bought the goods from the supplier - the supplier took your money.

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But buying the goods is not enough.

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The person who enters the shop and asks to buy goods displayed in the window does not therefore accept an offer.

home

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But no one there had ever heard of the Arektenje area of Jaffa where the newly married Damiani had bought his home .

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Just down the row of lockers from Cianfrocco are two young players who just bought their first homes , neither in California.

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A retired couple have gone to the High Court to force the Government to buy their home .

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Now that my parents had bought orie home , the decision to acquire a second home came easily.

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They are fast-moving, colourful, noisy, and as good if not better than anything you can buy for home computers.

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Bombeck bought a home in Paradise Valley near Keane, a friend since her days in Ohio.

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After all, if some one wants to buy a home they are more likely to approach a bank or building society.

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They want to buy a home .

house

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The easiest way is to buy a kit house , like John and Stephanie.

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The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house .

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The Department of Transport says they should have known about it before they bought the house .

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The look can be quaint or dated, but most people who buy an old house long to update the surfaces.

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He had recently bought a huge house there with a garden which bordered on the river, directly opposite Botolph's Wharf.

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A few years ago, we bought our Connecticut house from a family with five teen-agers.

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He is buying a farm house along with several acres of ground, but the riding will be strictly for his children.

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The couple bought the house that was just sold in 1994 for about $ 900, 000, sources say.

investor

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But what is the investor buying with these funds?

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News that an investor has bought a significant stake in any company is likely to lift that company's share price.

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The last time investors bought a flurry of 100-year bonds was in 1993, when Walt Disney&038;.

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Should an instrument come with an option attached allowing investors to buy or sell at particular prices?

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If investors decide not to buy more telecommunications bonds, the bonds may not rise much higher, Patel said.

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Private investors can buy gilts in several ways.

land

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The couple moved a mobile home on to their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago.

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Scottsdale voters took the most decisive action last May, approving a sales-tax increase to buy land in the McDowell Mountains.

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Developer Urban Splash is involved and is in the process of buying part of the land .

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But tribes with casinos are starting to use some of their profits to buy land and keep it from being destroyed.

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The commission could buy land either by agreement or compulsorily, and it was given very wide powers for this purpose.

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The peopIe who bought the land some years ago tore down every-thing.

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A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.

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He saw in to the future and sold his camels and sheep and bought this land .

money

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There, a little money will buy you a good deal of swank.

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Those who fish for lobster dive longer and deeper, just to make money to buy more cocaine.

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He'd give me money to buy clothes, but I had to keep asking for it.

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Not that he had the money to buy her diamonds, but still he thought it anyway.

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Herbert gave him pocket money to buy one a week.

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Second is that in the physical possession of the things which money can buy .

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Did you know she lent him a lot of money to buy them?

people

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It was packed with people buying up stout shoes.

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Sometimes it seems more support is given to people buying Tupperware than to those of us who want to parent wisely.

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Stories such as this will only make people wary of buying Aboriginal art.

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This expansion brings elements of Journal news coverage to an additional four million people who buy these newspapers.

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The aim is to create a relaxed, friendly atmosphere which will encourage people to buy .

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Workers should be producing what people want to buy .

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The high quality will encourage people to buy surround-sound units.

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Most people buy cookbooks to learn control, to have control, over the thing being cooked.

price

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Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery.

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The falling price will cause less corn to be offered and will simultaneously encourage consumers to buy more.

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Converted whisky barrels like these can be bought at a reasonable price in most parts of the country.

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You were all bought with a price .

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When they sell their pubs, Virani will buy - at knockdown prices .

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The achievement has been bought at a price .

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Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive.

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But much more of it is due to consumer-goods firms having encouraged shoppers to buy on price by bombarding them with special offers.

product

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They enlighten us on the mystery, we are grateful to them, we trust them and then we buy their product .

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But with audiences in the millions, enough people see the commercials and buy enough products to make the system work.

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Women think: buy the product , look like that.

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That means Chantal could have been placed in the position of buying back product , thus converting revenue to inventory.

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Around 100 companies all over Britain are giving away Air Miles vouchers to customers who buy their products and services.

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Even recently, fat-free snack manufacturers have had a problem: People would buy the products , but only once.

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The public who buy these products from a supermarket often imagine that they are the customers.

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I.. Because all meat and poultry must be inspected, the consumer expects to buy only wholesome products .

property

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Another useful feature is the price guide to London properties that tells you at a glance where you can afford to buy .

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Heavy buying of utility and property issues led the surge.

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Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery.

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His son bought the property in 1985.

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The council had no legal obligation to buy back the property and previous repurchases were virtually unheard of.

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He also made investments of his own, buying property and condominiums.

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The Fowlers claim just 3 weeks after he bought the property , Mr Mackarness had applied for planning permission.

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If you are buying a property , then always try to maximise your resale potential.

shop

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He went into the shop and bought it for the first price the man quoted to him.

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Where was the chemist's shop to buy a tube of sun-tan lotion or a sticking plaster?

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But her enthusiasm was swiftly dampened by a visit to a curio shop , where she bought several overpriced souvenirs.

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The shoe shop next door is bought out by a firm of metal welders.

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A customer walked into the shop and bought the shoes.

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In fact it was from Vic Furlong's shop that David bought his first saxaphone.

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Soo ran out of the shop to buy food.

ticket

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They could not buy tickets in advance, so they queue like docile cattle.

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Now you have to find an airfare and buy a ticket .

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He bought a ticket to Port au Prince.

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But your guests will have to buy park admission tickets .

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From Thursday gold card members can buy tickets the standing price is £7.

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Advised by doctors to recuperate in a warm and dry climate, he bought a ticket to Los Angeles.

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Nevertheless, in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company, they had all been obliged to buy return tickets .

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When should you buy an airline ticket ?

■ VERB

afford

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Another useful feature is the price guide to London properties that tells you at a glance where you can afford to buy .

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Many smaller companies simply can not afford to buy health insurance for employees and remain in business.

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If you can only afford to buy a certain amount of organic produce, potatoes would be a good choice.

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Even if his family could have afforded to buy one, they could not have found a ready source.

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Sometimes you can get it, but they make it too expensive so you can't afford to buy it.

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They reach too frequently the people who could easily afford to buy their own.

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Let's face it, Miranda, not many people of your age can afford to buy a house like this.

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Until then, availability of super-computers was limited to military researchers and others who could afford to buy time on them.

agree

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If Brian agrees to buy the car, then changes his mind, can he withdraw his acceptance?

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Reynolds also agreed to buy Anderson a $ 1. 3 million home and pay her attorney fees.

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My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky.

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A panel of households was recruited, all of which agreed to buy their tea through the research firm for three months.

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Alltel agreed to buy about 3, 600 of Citizens' phone lines in Pennsylvania for about $ 10 million.

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Saur has agreed in principle to buy out its partner to produce closer ties with its other operation, Cambrian Environmental Services.

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Kimberly-Clark Corp. agreed to buy rival Scott Paper Co.

try

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A developer trying to buy up a site in a city comes across an owner who charges a ridiculously high price.

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Unaware the store was temporarily closed, she had come downtown Thursday trying to buy a jacket for her husband.

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Both trying to buy and trying to sell a property can have fundamental implications for most people's financial situation.

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Opponents claim the millionaire publisher is trying to buy votes with his fat checkbook.

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I tried to buy it, but the guy wasn't interested.

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Napster Inc. tried to buy time with a series of legal appeals ahead of the hearing by U.S.

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I commanded him to try and buy a George Paston.

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I tried to buy tickets, but the situation was horrendous with the scalpers.

want

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I bought something he wanted , and he bought something I wanted.

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When stocks are high, they want to buy .

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What was beyond him to understand was why any man in his right mind would want to buy .

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Workers should be producing what people want to buy .

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Anyone wanting to buy a copy, only 100 were printed and of these twenty were sold on the day of publication.

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Most think anyone who wants to buy a gun should have to attend a clinic on proper use.

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I didn't want to buy a new one in Sweetmary.

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They have managed to sell some of the statues though I can't think who'd want to buy them.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be sold a pup/buy a pup

bulk buying/orders etc

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Also, with bulk buying you save a lot of time by not having to order each resistor and capacitor individually.

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He and other outlets routinely open bulk orders of booster packs, then sell individual rare cards over the counter.

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In the 1980s you can not survive in a small business unless you are part of a bulk buying organization.

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It might also be worthwhile buying packs of d.i.l. integrated circuit holders, or bulk buying the smaller types.

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One reason: Cellular services that buy phones from Motorola have demanded ever-lower prices for their bulk orders.

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This is available from us free of charge in bulk orders and I hope you will consider taking some for distribution.

buy/own sth outright

talk/buy etc your way into/past etc sth/sb

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Each receives some kind of government stipend, and Harry talks his way into a computer job while Kate does laundry.

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Forbes' rivals have accused him of buying his way into the race.

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Now nationalised and backed by government money, the firm may buy its way into video technology and markets.

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The adventurers could fight, but it would be safer to try and talk their way past.

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The family - without plane tickets and passports - had to talk their way past airport officials on their homeward journey.

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They bought their way into the landed aristocracy.

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You should be able to buy your way into any Mystery you choose with that.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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"He said he was with friends last night." "Are you going to buy that?"

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A dollar doesn't buy much these days.

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I bought a new dress today at Macy's.

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I wouldn't buy anything from him - I don't trust him.

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If you don't have enough money for the pen, I'll buy it for you.

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John makes his living buying and selling used cars.

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Keith was going to buy me a ring, but now he says he wants to buy me a watch instead.

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She'll never buy that excuse.

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The painting was bought by a museum in New York.

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The ranch, which was originally bought for $20,000, is now valued at over $2 million.

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They say the judge was bought.

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We bought a house in Atlanta.

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We could tell him it was an accident, but he'd never buy it.

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We decided to buy instead of rent.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Again the politicians balked at the cost of buying the land, and the local press echoed their opinion.

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Check out the prices for buying into a hamburger or a pizza chain.

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Clients who buy through this service will receive a quarterly newsletter.

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He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and turned them into coolers for storing his flowers.

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If I want to buy you something I buy you earrings or something.

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It's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons.

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The theme for April will be Easter and all proceeds will help buy glass and chinaware.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

good

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The consignors then shopped the piece around, and Washington dealer Guy Bush got a very good buy indeed as a consequence.

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In the meantime, he has created a persona called the Fashion Director, who recommends good buys .

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Room-size roll ends are always a good buy .

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Properly priced, chicken wings and backs are good buys .

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The table below shows a selection of best buys .

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Retail cuts at special prices, to be frozen in the home freezer, offer opportunities for good buys .

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When properly priced, the chicken parts are as good buys as the whole chicken.

strong

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He slashed his rating from strong buy to reduce, and cut his target from Dollars 60 to Dollars 14.

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Salomon Brothers raised the disk-drive concern to strong buy from buy.

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An analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc. upgraded the rating on the computer maker to strong buy from buy.

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That would be a fairly strong buy signal.

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Brown &038; Sons Inc. lowered the rating on the software developer to buy from strong buy.

well

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The 1994 Sonoma County cabernet, a slightly better buy at $ 16, was a tad less well-integrated.

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If medium eggs are priced at 70 cents or less they are a better buy .

■ VERB

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My date gets out of the car to go buy popcorn while I fix up the speaker.

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If I had any class at all, I would get up from this desk and go buy bagels.

make

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It is prone to shrinking and should be pre-shrunk during the manufacture to make it a good buy .

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He made a similar buy Monday.

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If the current share price is 4.00, would you expect your adviser to make a buy , hold or sell recommendation?