(v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
(v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
(v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
Example Sentences:
(1) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.
(4) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(5) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(6) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(7) But it [Help to Buy] is the right policy instrument to deal with a specific problem."
(8) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(9) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
(10) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(11) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(12) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(13) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(16) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(17) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
(18) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(19) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
(20) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
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(1) Groups of rats were fed diets containing marginal levels of Fe and Zn as glycine chelates (tradename 'Chelazome', Albion Laboratories, Verona, New Jersey, USA), or the same level of mineral as ferrous sulphate or zinc carbonate.
(2) The antibacterial activity of the metabolites of ciprofloxacin (1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7-(1-piperazinyl)-3- quinolinecarboxylic acid, Bay o 9867; designated tradename: Ciprobay) M1, M2, M3 and M4 was tested with the agar dilution method against various Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria in comparison to ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin and nalidixic acid.
(3) Prepared with nonimmunospecific proteins were covalent conjugates of triaziquone [2,3,4-tris(1-aziridinyl)-p-benzoquinone] (hereafter referred to by the tradename, Trenimon).
(4) Under license from Goodyear, this same polymer has been manufactured by Lord Corporation for the hinge portion of finger joint prostheses using the tradename Bion.
(5) In a total of 36 volunteers with cardiac hyperreaction, investigations were carried out on the effect of bisoprolol (designated tradename: Concor), pindolol and placebo on central nervous functions with the aid of a reaction test, spiral aftereffect, tremor test and mood and sleep questionnaires.
(6) 1-Cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7-piperazin-1-ylquinol ine-3-carboxylic acid (ciprofloxacin, Bay o 9867; designated tradename: Ciprobay) is a new synthetic pyridone-carboxylic acid antimicrobial agent for oral use which has high activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and anaerobes.
(7) Sixteen years on, Roundup (Monsanto's tradename for its glyphosate herbicide) has certainly killed lots of weeds.
(8) The recent advances in technology include 1 step tests for HG, streptococcus A, and Chlamydia under the tradename Clearview, which for Chlamydia has reduced culture time to 30 minutes from 3-5 days.
(9) 100 male adults suffering from acute gonococcal urethritis were hospitalised and treated with decreasing doses from 2000 mg to 100 mg of ciprofloxacin (1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7-(1-piperazinyl)-3-quinoline carboxylic acid, Bay o 9867; designated tradename: Ciprobay).
(10) Overwhelming majority knew of mouthwashes through TV commercials and advertisements in magazines, 80% of those could name any one of the tradenames of the mouthwashes.
(11) This monograph on lynestrenol includes chemical and physical data (synonyms and tradenames), structural and molecular formulae and molecular weight, chemical and physical properties of lynestrenol, and the production, use, occurrence, and analysis of lynestrenol.
(12) In order to prevent the complications accompanied with pulmonary-artery (Swan-Ganz) catheterization, we have developed an antithrombogenic coating, tradenamed Anthron.
(13) Sustained-release nifedipine (SR) (developed by Elan, Athlone, Ireland; Unidipin is the tradename of Nifedipine SR, registered by Farmitalia Carlo Erba SpA, Milano, Italy) is a new nifedipine formulation suitable for once-daily administration.
(14) Hexsyn is the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company tradename for a polyolefin rubber synthesized from 1-hexene with 3-5% methylhexadiene as the source of residual double bonds for vulcanization.
(15) This monograph review of ethynodiol diacetate (ED) includes chemical and physical data (synonyms and tradenames), structural and molecular formulae and molecular weight of ED, chemical and physical properties (melting point, optical rotation and solubility), and the production, use, occurrence, and analysis of ED.
(16) Concentrations of 1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7-(1-piperazinyl)-3-quinoline carboxylic acid (ciprofloxacin; designated tradename: Ciprobay) similar to maximal levels obtained in the serum of patients with intact renal function after application of therapeutic doses and 4- to 5-fold such concentrations do not influence epinephrine- or collagen-induced aggregation.