Buy

Buying may refer to purchasing of goods and services with money or via barter in a trade, thereby achieving acquisition or procurement of them.

Buy or buying may also refer to:

Related terms

Buying agent (AKA purchasing agent, indent agent, indenting agent), someone who offers to buy something on behalf of someone else Buying center (AKA decision-making unit, DMU) Buy-up coverage, additional crop insurance for which farmers pay a premium Cross-buy, a feature of some digital distribution systems

Financial trading

Buy and hold (AKA position trading), an investment strategy Buyout, a method of taking control of a company Buy/sell spread, a bid–ask spread for a market maker Buy side in investment banking Buy-stop order, a trading instruction used to limit a loss Buy to let, purchasing a property to rent it out

Buying in bulk Buying club (AKA buyers club), a group making purchases together to get lower prices or obtain hard-to-get goods Buying power, a type of bargaining power relating to a purchaser and a supplier Co-buying (AKA cooperative buying), organizing people or companies together to increase negotiation power Collective buying power, the ability of a group of consumers or businesses to better negotiate for discounts Group buying (AKA collective buying; originating as: ), a method of bulk purchase to reduce price Mass buying (AKA bulk purchasing), the consumer side of wholesaling

Marketing tactics

"Buy local" or "buy locally", a slogan for local purchasing Buy on board in commercial aviation Buy here, pay here (BHPH), a method of offering a line of credit to customers at a used car dealership Buy now, pay later (BNPL), a type of short-term debt financing Buy one, get one free (BOGOF), a kind of promotion Predictive buying, the use of algorithmic analytics to guess customers' patterns for targeted advertising

Reasons for buying

Buying decision process (AKA buyer decision process), consumer behavior around purchasing Compulsive buying disorder (CBD), an obsession with shopping Impulse buy (AKA impulse purchase), an unplanned decision to buy something Panic buying (AKA panic purchasing), increased consumer activity around times of disaster and before price increases and shortages Preclusive buying (AKA preemptive buying, preclusive purchasing), an economic warfare tactic in which a belligerent in a conflict purchases matériel and operations from neutral countries to reduce how much others can buy Revenge buying (AKA revenge shopping, revenge spending), a sudden surge in consumer activity after people are denied the opportunity to shop for extended periods of time

By what is purchased

Bride buying, the cultural practice of providing some form of payment in exchange for marriage Buying land (in a process known as conveyancing), purchasing legal title of real property Buying oneself out of service (AKA discharge by purchase), the process of obtaining a military discharge by making a payment as a fine Buy-to-play, the opposite of a subscription revenue model for video games Child buying, human trafficking of children / child-buying, the flip side of child selling Debt buying, purchasing delinquent or charged-off debts from a creditor or lender Media buying, procurement of advertising Salary buying, a kind of offer by a loan shark Vote buying (AKA electoral clientelism, patronage politics), a political campaign method that is illegal in many countries

Places Buy (inhabited locality) [], any of several inhabited localities in Russia Buy (river), a river in Perm Krai and the republics of Bashkortostan and Udmurtia in Russia

Airports with code "BUY"

FAA LID: Burlington–Alamance Regional Airport (ICAO: KBUY), Alamance County, North Carolina, United States IATA: Bunbury Airport (ICAO: YBUN), Western Australia

People

Iryna Buy (), a Ukrainian Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier Margherita Buy, an Italian actress Mykola Buy (), a Ukrainian footballer Ma Buying (), the birth name of Chinese Muslim warlord Ma Zhongying

Websites

buy.at, an online affiliate marketing platform launched in 2002 Buy.com, a shopping website founded in 1997; renamed Rakuten.com/shop in 2010

Other uses Buy (album), 1979 album by James Chance and the Contortions Buy, slang for believe, find credible, be convinced Buy language (AKA Uboi, Gu-boy, Kobiana, Cobiana), a Wolof–Nyun Senegambian language spoken in several villages of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau Buy (cards), the action of getting one or more cards in certain games

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