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.
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
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Per incident, we will have been buying Northern Consolidated all day.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis