Definition of buy

"buy" in the noun sense

1. bargain, buy, steal

an advantageous purchase

"she got a bargain at the auction"

"the stock was a real buy at that price"

"buy" in the verb sense

1. buy, purchase

obtain by purchase acquire by means of a financial transaction

"The family purchased a new car"

"The conglomerate acquired a new company"

"She buys for the big department store"

2. bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms

make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

"This judge can be bought"

3. buy

be worth or be capable of buying

"This sum will buy you a ride on the train"

4. buy

acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange

"She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"

5. buy

accept as true

"I can't buy this story"

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Quotations for buy

Better buy than borrow. [ Proverb ]

Money cannot buy merit. [ Proverb ]

Beauty will buy no beef. [ Proverb ]

He that blames would buy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Bare words buy no barley. [ Proverb ]

To buy dear is not bounty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You go to a goat to buy wool. [ Proverb ]

I will not buy a pig in a poke. [ Proverb ]

Buy at a fair, but sell at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who finds fault means to buy. [ Proverb ]

A man may buy even gold too dear. [ Proverb ]

Buy at a market, and sell at home. [ Proverb ]

Ask your purse what you should buy. [ Proverb ]

Buy and sell, and live by the loss. [ Proverb ]

He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. [ Proverb ]

Then fill each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below. [ Horatius Bonar ]

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]

They that buy an office must sell something. [ Proverb ]

We'll bark ourselves if we buy dogs so dear. [ Proverb ]

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name that other men may buy. [ Crabbe ]

We will bark ourselves ere we'll buy dogs so dear. [ Proverb ]

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.

If you buy the cow, take the tail into the bargain. [ Proverb ]

What is an estate good for, if it cannot buy content? [ Proverb ]

No man can buy anything in the market with gentility. [ Lord Burleigh ]

A man may come to market though he do not buy oysters. [ Proverb ]

Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel. [ Yogi Berra ]

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. [ Thoreau ]

Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy. [ Proverb ]

He may very well be contented that need not buy nor flatter. [ Proverb ]

A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you. [ Proverb ]

Many there be, that buy nothing with their money but repentance. [ Proverb ]

The dearer it is, the cheaper it is to me, for I shall buy the less. [ Proverb ]

Money will buy money's worth: but the thing men call fame, what is it? [ Carlyle ]

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]

Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. [ Cato ]

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. [ Yogi Berra ]

Day and night, sun and moon, air and light, every one must have, and none can buy. [ Proverb ]

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]

A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be. [ George D. Prentice ]

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. [ Izaak Walton ]

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]

Of yore, they languished, they burned, they died for love; today, they chat about it, they make it, and, more often, they buy it. [ Jouy ]

At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]

Plays and romances sell as well as books of devotion, but with this difference, - more people read the former than buy them, and more buy the latter than read them. [ T. Hughes ]

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]

There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

buy in Scrabble®

The word buy is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters buy:

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The 23 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In buy

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buy in Words With Friends™

The word buy is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters buy:

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Words within the letters of buy

2 letter words in buy (1 word)

3 letter words in buy (1 word)

buy + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving buy

Shorter words in buy

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Longer words containing buy

buyback buybacks

buyer buyers homebuyers

buyer buyers housebuyers

buyer buyers nonbuyers

buyer homebuyer homebuyers

buyer nonbuyer nonbuyers

buying nonbuying

buying outbuying

buying overbuying

buying rebuying prebuying

buyoff buyoffs

buyout buyouts

buys outbuys

buys overbuys

buys rebuys prebuys

outbuy outbuying

outbuy outbuys

overbuy overbuying

overbuy overbuys

rebuy prebuy prebuying

rebuy prebuy prebuys

rebuy rebuying prebuying

rebuy rebuys prebuys

underbuy