WordNet
v. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home [syn: take out]
Usage examples of "buy food".
It was not as it was in their own land, where even silver could not buy food because there was none.
Even the two-year-olds were given simple tasks, sorting plastic petals for the plastic flowers the young and old made that gave many of the hill dwellers money to buy food and money to gamble with.
Nightly she debated with Melanie the advisability of sending Pork abroad on the horse with some greenbacks to try to buy food.
By the middle of May in that first season, when it became apparent that the land was good for vegetables, he was in the store one afternoon when the latest contingent of miners came through, eager to buy food, and they spoke so much of impending civil war that Brumbaugh had a sudden vision of what would probably happen.
The recent financial disaster in Sawdust City is going to leave hundreds of families and retirees with no hope of a Christmas, and the Country Club is undertaking to buy food, toys, and clothing for them.
You'll have less money, but you'll have to use more of it to buy food.