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buying
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Word definitions for buying in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of making a purchase. vb. (present participle of buy English)
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn: purchasing ]
Usage examples of buying.
My main argument is with an America that sells itself short by buying into the cluster of values expressed so powerfully in our malls.
Such retail restoration increased impulse buying, especially by tourists.
Confronted with a constant, but questionable, contrast between nature and culture, we symbolically take sides with nature by buying a cultural construction of it.
We teach them to express affection, or at least to feign affection, by buying appropriate gifts for the special people in their lives.
Because we want our children to be consumers, and because we want our food shopping to go smoothly, we tend to indulge children in supermarkets, buying some of their favorite products or rewarding them for good behavior with a purchase or two.
Like many Americans, therefore, teenagers respond to ads not just by buying things but by making them a part of their own lives.
In this scenario, we often assume that a person who is just looking is a person who is not buying, a person who, perhaps, is not even really shopping.
Diderot found that buying a new dressing gown made his other possessions seem outdated, so he needed to replace his desk and curtains to fit with his new gown.
buying an expensive shirt on sale is considered more virtuous than buying a moderately priced shirt.
The entertainmentization of malls is part of a larger shift in commercial culture, as people have shifted from buying goods to buying experiences, some of them embedded in goods.
As consumers, we have experience buying things, but no formal training in selling things.
buying on time means charging the present to the future, dissociating the pleasure from the responsibility and the buying from the billing.
And the products of the mall are amply interwoven with stories, often about the personal benefits of buying this product.
And if we can fulfill our experiential needs without buying stuff at all, it might be possible to pursue more happiness with fewer environmental consequences.
But sometimes less is more, and we can simplify by buying less and enjoying it more.