"buying" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbaɪ.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-buying.ogg [US] Forms: buyings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: buy + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|buy|ing}} buy + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} buying (countable and uncountable, plural buyings)
  1. The act of making a purchase. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of making a purchase): ὤνησις (ṓnēsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), شِرَاء (širāʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), اِشْتِرَاء (ištirāʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), kaufen (German), karyor (Tocharian B)
    Sense id: en-buying-en-noun-YUgIRT36

Verb

IPA: /ˈbaɪ.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-buying.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: buy + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|buy|ing}} buy + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} buying
  1. present participle and gerund of buy Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: buy Derived forms: impulse buying, panic buying
    Sense id: en-buying-en-verb-~vxIYNeX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 17 83

Inflected forms

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