buyingn.

Brit.

/ˈbʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see buy v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: buy v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < buy v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier bune n.

a. The action or fact of purchasing something; an instance of this. Cf. buy v. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > buying > [noun]

buyinga1250

achatec1405

acate?1406

purchase1426

emption1550

buyal1612

mercation1623

offtake1885

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 164 Me ne mei..nout two þongede scheon habben wið uten buggunge [?c1225 Cleo. bune].

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Oþer by yefþe oþer be begginge.

?c1430 (c1383) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 25 Þei han desceyued hem in byynge of here catel.

1528 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 60 Buyings and sellings by retaile.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Hhh4^v/2 There is also an officer called the Reiceiuer of Fynes, who receueth the mony of all such, as compound with the King..for the buying of any lands, or tenements houlden in Capite.

1713 H. Martyn in Guardian 8 June 2/1 We never have so good a Revenue by buying as by lending.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. iii. 55 Going on with their buyings .

1961 T. Macdonald Tvl Story 19 It was ‘Tante’ who did the buying of the corduroys.

2012 Private Eye 15 June 29/1 The buying of a £99,000 gene sequencer for use by a profit-making spin-out company.

b. spec. Stock Market. The action or fact of purchasing shares on the stock exchange.In early use perhaps a contextual use of sense 1a.

ΚΠ

1843 John Bull 4 Mar. 130/2 There is no getting the loan notes or debentures of the various Companies, and therefore resort is had to the buying of the original shares.

1911 Times 8 Mar. 18/4 In the Foreign Railway Market interest centred in Mexican Ordinary, in which the buying was persistent.

2004 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 24 Jan. 16 US investors had priced up stocks so much that today's figures would have had to be truly remarkable to cause further major buying.

2. Theology. Redemption, ransom, salvation. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun]

healnessc897

heal901

alesenesseOE

lesenessOE

alesendnessOE

healthc1000

alesednessOE

berrhlessc1175

i-sundungc1175

salvation?c1225

buyinga1300

savementc1330

yborȝing1340

election1382

savinga1387

safetyc1390

soul healtha1393

redemptiona1400

safenessa1400

curation?c1400

predestinationc1400

gain-buying1435

dilection1570

expeccationa1631

unsinninga1631

soul-savingness1672

inner light1856

a1400 (c1300) Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 22 Your biing and your pris Ful ner cumen tilward you es.

c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 293 He suffrede for oure redempcioun and bieng [a1450 Yale byinge].

1529 tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. sig. Bviii Now was thys byeng and redempcyon done not after the worldely fassyon.

a1681 N. Ball Spiritual Bondage & Freedom (1683) vii. 300 Your happiness by Christs buying of you, is no way diminished, but increased.

a1707 T. Doolittle Compl. Body Pract. Divinity (1723) 551/1 Is not the death of Christ sufficient satisfaction to the justice of God..? A sufficient price for buying of souls from the curse of the law?

1847 Eclectic Rev. Jan. 50 In scripture, the redemption is everywhere represented as a buying of men back from impending evil.

1995 C. W. Marx Devil's Rights & Redempt. in Lit. Medieval Eng. vii. 125 Christ's buying of human kind, his sacrifice.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier in sense 1a, as in buying place, buying practice, etc.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 36 Byynge place, or place of byynge, emptorium.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. viii. 100 His buying part requires..a good judgment.

1862 in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 807 Duppa tells me the buying mania will spread into the Canterbury hill runs even to the snowy country.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 5/2 Buying orders were received.

1901 Mineral Industry 9 209 Once again a buying movement set in, and Lake copper changed hand at 16.375c.

1980 G. Watson Bk. Society ii. 29 Each order, which was presented at the buying counter, was checked and then passed on.

2019 New Yorker 11 Nov. 48/1 The larger companies profess ethical buying practices.

C2.

buying in n. Stock Market the purchase of shares on the stock exchange, esp. after the non-delivery of similar shares bought; also as a modifier (cf. buy-in n. 1b, buying-in day n.).

1821 J. Lancaster Bank—Stock Exchange—Bankers: Exposé touching their Mysteries 55 The ticket pocketing scheme was perhaps the most iniquitous, to prevent the buying in on a settling day, the balance of the account.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 7/1 He immediately delivers the shares, usually on the day after the buying-in takes place.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 865 The ‘corner’ in Northern Pacific common shares produced..the suspension for two or three weeks of the ‘buying in’ rule.

2009 London Stock Exchange Aggregated Regulatory News Service (Nexis) 26 May The Directors have..decided to adopt a stricter approach to monitoring the level of any discount and to the buying in of shares.

buying-in day n. Stock Market the day on which a buyer may purchase shares on the stock exchange, esp. after the non-delivery of similar shares bought (cf. buying in n.).

1850 Derby Mercury 29 May Railways very strong, it being buying-in day.

1901 Sat. Rev. 25 May 660/1 The Committee of the Stock Exchange has now fixed 10 June as the buying-in day.

2005 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 8 Apr. The SGX..is at liberty to choose a reference price between 10.45 am and 11.15 am of the buying-in day as the basis.

buying power n. the financial ability of an individual or group to make purchases; the capacity of a monetary unit, sum of money, etc., to buy goods and services.

ΘΠ

society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun]

wortheOE

money-worth?c1430

valuation?c1520

money's worth1578

purchasing power1824

purchasing value1861

1844 Fife Herald 19 Jan. 189/6 I think it has been well shown to you that such laws are especially injurious to the agricultural class, by impairing the buying-power of the customers to whom they must look for the purchase of their productions.

1910 Nottingham Evening Post 25 Aug. 5/1 The buying power of the dollar has diminished by one-half in the case of wheat and eggs.

2015 New Yorker 9 Nov. 32/1 Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

buying up n. the purchasing of a commodity, stock, asset, etc., so as to acquire a large amount, or to remove such assets from the open market; cf. to buy up 1 at buy v. Phrasal verbs 1.

1660 J. Dauncey Exact Hist. Changes of Govt. in Eng. 320 The Parliament now begin to discover the reason of the buying up of so many Arms in London.

1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Abbrochment, in Law, is the Engrossing or Buying up of Wares before they are brought to a Market or Fair, and selling them again by Retail.

1959 Times 2 Oct. 16/2 It fits in very nicely with the policy of nationalization by the buying up of stock on the market.

2003 Observer 30 Nov. (Cash section) 20/1 Large-scale buying up of gardens for ‘backland’ development is becoming prevalent in the South East, where land is at a premium and councils are trying to find alternatives to building on greenfield sites.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	buying
释义	buyingn. Brit. /ˈbʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see buy v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: buy v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < buy v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier bune n. 1. a. The action or fact of purchasing something; an instance of this. Cf. buy v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] buyinga1250 achatec1405 acate?1406 purchase1426 emption1550 buyal1612 mercation1623 offtake1885 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 164 Me ne mei..nout two þongede scheon habben wið uten buggunge [?c1225 Cleo. bune]. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Oþer by yefþe oþer be begginge. ?c1430 (c1383) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 25 Þei han desceyued hem in byynge of here catel. 1528 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 60 Buyings and sellings by retaile. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Hhh4^v/2 There is also an officer called the Reiceiuer of Fynes, who receueth the mony of all such, as compound with the King..for the buying of any lands, or tenements houlden in Capite. 1713 H. Martyn in Guardian 8 June 2/1 We never have so good a Revenue by buying as by lending. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. iii. 55 Going on with their buyings . View more context for this quotation 1961 T. Macdonald Tvl Story 19 It was ‘Tante’ who did the buying of the corduroys. 2012 Private Eye 15 June 29/1 The buying of a £99,000 gene sequencer for use by a profit-making spin-out company. b. spec. Stock Market. The action or fact of purchasing shares on the stock exchange.In early use perhaps a contextual use of sense 1a. ΚΠ 1843 John Bull 4 Mar. 130/2 There is no getting the loan notes or debentures of the various Companies, and therefore resort is had to the buying of the original shares. 1911 Times 8 Mar. 18/4 In the Foreign Railway Market interest centred in Mexican Ordinary, in which the buying was persistent. 2004 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 24 Jan. 16 US investors had priced up stocks so much that today's figures would have had to be truly remarkable to cause further major buying. 2. Theology. Redemption, ransom, salvation. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] healnessc897 heal901 alesenesseOE lesenessOE alesendnessOE healthc1000 alesednessOE berrhlessc1175 i-sundungc1175 salvation?c1225 buyinga1300 savementc1330 yborȝing1340 election1382 savinga1387 safetyc1390 soul healtha1393 redemptiona1400 safenessa1400 curation?c1400 predestinationc1400 gain-buying1435 dilection1570 expeccationa1631 unsinninga1631 soul-savingness1672 inner light1856 a1400 (c1300) Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 22 Your biing and your pris Ful ner cumen tilward you es. c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 293 He suffrede for oure redempcioun and bieng [a1450 Yale byinge]. 1529 tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. sig. Bviii Now was thys byeng and redempcyon done not after the worldely fassyon. a1681 N. Ball Spiritual Bondage & Freedom (1683) vii. 300 Your happiness by Christs buying of you, is no way diminished, but increased. a1707 T. Doolittle Compl. Body Pract. Divinity (1723) 551/1 Is not the death of Christ sufficient satisfaction to the justice of God..? A sufficient price for buying of souls from the curse of the law? 1847 Eclectic Rev. Jan. 50 In scripture, the redemption is everywhere represented as a buying of men back from impending evil. 1995 C. W. Marx Devil's Rights & Redempt. in Lit. Medieval Eng. vii. 125 Christ's buying of human kind, his sacrifice. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier in sense 1a, as in buying place, buying practice, etc. Π Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 36 Byynge place, or place of byynge, emptorium. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. viii. 100 His buying part requires..a good judgment. 1862 in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 807 Duppa tells me the buying mania will spread into the Canterbury hill runs even to the snowy country. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 5/2 Buying orders were received. 1901 Mineral Industry 9 209 Once again a buying movement set in, and Lake copper changed hand at 16.375c. 1980 G. Watson Bk. Society ii. 29 Each order, which was presented at the buying counter, was checked and then passed on. 2019 New Yorker 11 Nov. 48/1 The larger companies profess ethical buying practices. C2. buying in n. Stock Market the purchase of shares on the stock exchange, esp. after the non-delivery of similar shares bought; also as a modifier (cf. buy-in n. 1b, buying-in day n.). Π 1821 J. Lancaster Bank—Stock Exchange—Bankers: Exposé touching their Mysteries 55 The ticket pocketing scheme was perhaps the most iniquitous, to prevent the buying in on a settling day, the balance of the account. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 7/1 He immediately delivers the shares, usually on the day after the buying-in takes place. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 865 The ‘corner’ in Northern Pacific common shares produced..the suspension for two or three weeks of the ‘buying in’ rule. 2009 London Stock Exchange Aggregated Regulatory News Service (Nexis) 26 May The Directors have..decided to adopt a stricter approach to monitoring the level of any discount and to the buying in of shares. buying-in day n. Stock Market the day on which a buyer may purchase shares on the stock exchange, esp. after the non-delivery of similar shares bought (cf. buying in n.). Π 1850 Derby Mercury 29 May Railways very strong, it being buying-in day. 1901 Sat. Rev. 25 May 660/1 The Committee of the Stock Exchange has now fixed 10 June as the buying-in day. 2005 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 8 Apr. The SGX..is at liberty to choose a reference price between 10.45 am and 11.15 am of the buying-in day as the basis. buying power n. the financial ability of an individual or group to make purchases; the capacity of a monetary unit, sum of money, etc., to buy goods and services. ΘΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] wortheOE money-worth?c1430 valuation?c1520 money's worth1578 purchasing power1824 purchasing value1861 1844 Fife Herald 19 Jan. 189/6 I think it has been well shown to you that such laws are especially injurious to the agricultural class, by impairing the buying-power of the customers to whom they must look for the purchase of their productions. 1910 Nottingham Evening Post 25 Aug. 5/1 The buying power of the dollar has diminished by one-half in the case of wheat and eggs. 2015 New Yorker 9 Nov. 32/1 Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care. buying up n. the purchasing of a commodity, stock, asset, etc., so as to acquire a large amount, or to remove such assets from the open market; cf. to buy up 1 at buy v. Phrasal verbs 1. Π 1660 J. Dauncey Exact Hist. Changes of Govt. in Eng. 320 The Parliament now begin to discover the reason of the buying up of so many Arms in London. 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Abbrochment, in Law, is the Engrossing or Buying up of Wares before they are brought to a Market or Fair, and selling them again by Retail. 1959 Times 2 Oct. 16/2 It fits in very nicely with the policy of nationalization by the buying up of stock on the market. 2003 Observer 30 Nov. (Cash section) 20/1 Large-scale buying up of gardens for ‘backland’ development is becoming prevalent in the South East, where land is at a premium and councils are trying to find alternatives to building on greenfield sites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.a1250
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