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  *买* | 买* | *买
to buy / to purchase
HSK 1
to purchase; to buy
HSK 4
to buy and sell
HSK 5
to purchase; to buy / to bribe; to buy off
HSK 7-9
cannot afford / can't afford buying
HSK 7-9
to buy out / buyout / severance
Jamaica
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
buyer; purchaser
purchase and sale; transaction / shop; store
to ingratiate oneself
to buy a house
buyer (in contracts)
to pay the restaurant bill
to purchase / to buy in (goods)
to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows
to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)
to purchase; to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent; buyer
comprador
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to bribe
customer
buying price
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
to visit a prostitute / (literary) to buy wine or drinks
to buy detail / to buy one at a time
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it
to bribe / bribery
to purchase / to buy (usu. real estate)
variant of 買帳|买帐
to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to buy back / to redeem / repurchase
to buy groceries
to buy (finance)
to buy on margin (finance)
to hire a hitman
buy one, get one free / two for the price of one
to do one's shopping
to buy an official title; to use wealth to acquire office
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
purchasing power
An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.
lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (saying) / fig. time is precious
to engage in speculative trading
Best Buy (retailer)
lit. the person from Zheng 鄭|郑 who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / fig. disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea
to buy in bulk / bulk buying
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
purchaser
money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll / (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession
(idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point
(loanword) oh my God!
buying and selling at fair prices
(loanword) dynamite
(loanword) oh my God!
(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018
buying and selling of official positions
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
(loanword) oh my God!
(loanword) oh my God!
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)
GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
buyer's market
lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness / abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)
to offer a bribe
to allow sb to save face / to defer to
to buy popular support / to court favor


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