{{Wiktionary}} '''Buying''' may refer to purchasing of goods and services with money or via barter in a trade, thereby achieving acquisition or procurement of them. {{TOCright}} '''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: {{Langx|zh|团购|tuán gòu|team buying}}), 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) [{{Langx|ru|Буй}}], 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 ({{Langx|uk|Ірина Буй}}), a Ukrainian Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier * Margherita Buy, an Italian actress * Mykola Buy ({{Langx|uk|Микола Буй}}), a Ukrainian footballer * Ma Buying ({{Langx|zh|馬步英; 马步英|Mǎ Bùyīng; Ma Pu-ying}}), 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
==See also== {{Self-reference tool}} * By (disambiguation) * Bui (disambiguation) * Bouy (disambiguation) * Buoy (disambiguation) * Buys, a Dutch surname * Buies: ** Buies Creek, North Carolina, United States, a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Neills Creek Township, drained by the stream Buies Creek ** Arthur Buies/Joseph-Marie-Arthur (1840–1901), a journalist and essayist from Quebec, Canada * LaBuy: ** Walter J. LaBuy, a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Buying in (disambiguation) * Buyback (disambiguation) * Oyster buy-boat * WP:BUY → Wikipedia:Notability cannot be purchased * Help:Buying Wikipedia * Purchase (disambiguation) * Sell (disambiguation)
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