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Question 1 of 7
Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift.
Idioms about buy
buy it, Slang. to get killed: He bought it at Dunkirk.
Origin of buy
before 1000; Middle English byen, variant of byggen, buggen,Old English bycgan; cognate with Old Saxon buggjan,Gothic bugjan to buy, Old Norse byggja to lend, rent
synonym study for buy
1. Buy, purchase imply obtaining or acquiring property or goods for a price. Buy is the common and informal word, applying to any such transaction: to buy a house, vegetables at the market. Purchase is more formal and may connote buying on a larger scale, in a finer store, and the like: to purchase a year's supplies.
OTHER WORDS FROM buy
Words nearby buy
butyryl, butyryl group, buxom, Buxtehude, Buxton, buy, buy a pig in a poke, buyback, buy boat, buy-down, buyer
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How to use buy in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for buy
buy
/ (baɪ) /
verb buys, buying or bought (mainly tr)
noun
a purchase (often in the phrases good or bad buy)
Word Origin for buy
Old English bycgan; related to Old Norse byggja to let out, lend, Gothic bugjan to buy
usage for buy
The use of off after buy as in I bought this off my neighbour was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable in informal contexts
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