buy

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noun

Buy is used before these nouns: ↑signal

Buy is used after these nouns: ↑bargain, ↑impulse

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verb

ADVERB

▪ cheaply

▪

Old bicycles can be bought quite cheaply.

▪ online

▪

Young people are very comfortable buying online.

▪ locally

▪

Was the produce imported or bought locally?

VERB + BUY

▪ can afford to

▪

We can afford to buy enough paint to do the whole house.

▪ can't afford to

▪

I can't afford to buy a new car.

PREPOSITION

▪ at

▪

CDs can now be bought at the supermarket.

▪ for

▪

He bought a car for his daughter.

▪

I bought it for $25.

▪ from

▪

I bought some books from a friend.

PHRASES

▪ buy and sell

▪

She makes her living buying and selling antiques.

▪ money can buy, money can't buy

▪

It's the best that money can buy.

▪

There are some things money can't buy.

Buy is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑consumer, ↑investor, ↑money, ↑museum

Buy is used with these nouns as the object: ↑apartment, ↑art, ↑asset, ↑beer, ↑bond, ↑business, ↑company, ↑condom, ↑condominium, ↑copy, ↑cottage, ↑coverage, ↑cup, ↑currency, ↑drink, ↑electricity, ↑equipment, ↑estate, ↑excuse, ↑firm, ↑flat, ↑food, ↑franchise, ↑gift, ↑goods, ↑grocery, ↑happiness, ↑home, ↑house, ↑insurance, ↑journal, ↑land, ↑lease, ↑licence, ↑loyalty, ↑lunch, ↑magazine, ↑mansion, ↑membership, ↑merchandise, ↑mortgage, ↑newspaper, ↑outfit, ↑painting, ↑paper, ↑pension, ↑permit, ↑pint, ↑postcard, ↑present, ↑produce, ↑product, ↑property, ↑provision, ↑record, ↑right, ↑round, ↑security, ↑share, ↑single, ↑site, ↑slave, ↑software, ↑stake, ↑stock, ↑subscription, ↑supply, ↑ticket, ↑trailer, ↑wardrobe, ↑warranty