"unbuying" meaning in English

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Adjective

Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: From un- + buying. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|buying}} un- + buying Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unbuying (not comparable)
  1. Not making purchases. Tags: not-comparable
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          "text": "Consider that one third of the whole are the miserably poor, unbuying blacks.",
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          "ref": "1975, John Greenleaf Whittier, John B. Pickard, The Letters, page 136:",
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