Definition of buys

"buys" 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"

"buys" 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 buys

Who buys land, buys war. [ Italian Proverb ]

Friendship buys friendship. [ Emerson ]

He buys very dear who begs. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

A penny more buys the whistle. [ Proverb ]

He who buys requires an hundred eyes. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that buys magistracy must sell justice. [ Proverb ]

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. [ M. Wortley Montagu ]

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. [ John Webster ]

Who buys has need of an hundred eyes;
But one is enough to him that sells the stuff. [ Proverb ]

He that buys and lies, shall feel it in his purse. [ Proverb ]

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. [ William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Sc. 5 ]

Who always buys and sells feels not what he spends. [ Proverb ]

He that gives customarily to the vulgar buys trouble. [ Proverb ]

He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he fain would not. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. [ Tuckerman ]

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

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 ]

buys in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters buys:

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buys in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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

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Words within the letters of buys

2 letter words in buys (2 words)

3 letter words in buys (3 words)

4 letter words in buys (Anagrams) (2 words)

buys + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence buys

Words that start with buys (1 word)

Words with buys in them (1 word)

Words that end with buys (5 words)

Word Growth involving buys

Shorter words in buys

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