buy
verb (used with object)
to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
buys
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pluralof buy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof buy (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
buyverb (used with object)to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
Example Sentences
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Under the operations, the Treasury buys older, less active bonds in the open market, and short-term debt takes its place.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
When CPL buys an item, its system records the retail price; when a patron checks it out, that amount gets added to the running total.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as it spreads bets across Anthropic, OpenAI, and their open-weight competitors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
This drone realism is notable because a perennial Washington complaint is that the island buys too many big platforms like fighter jets and isn’t focused enough on an “asymmetric” defense against a larger adversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He buys me ice cream every time I ask, even if it’s before dinner.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
