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  *买* | 买* | *买
to buy / to purchase
HSK 1
to purchase; to buy
HSK 4
buying and selling / business / business transactions / CL: 樁|桩,
HSK 5
to purchase; to buy / to bribe; to buy off
HSK 7-9
cannot afford / can't afford buying
HSK 7-9
buyer; purchaser
to buy out / buyout / severance
to buy a house
Jamaica
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
to purchase / to buy in (goods)
buyer (in contracts)
to pay the restaurant bill
to buy detail / to buy one at a time
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
to purchase; to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent; buyer
buying price
customer
to ingratiate oneself
to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)
to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
comprador
to bribe
to visit a prostitute / (literary) to buy wine or drinks
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
variant of 買帳|买帐
to bribe / bribery
to purchase / to buy (usu. real estate)
to buy (finance)
to buy back / to redeem / repurchase
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
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 on margin (finance)
to buy a title / to use wealth to acquire office
An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.
purchaser
buy one, get one free / two for the price of one
buying and selling of official positions
money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll / (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession
lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (idiom) / fig. time is precious
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
used in expressions of the form V不誤|照V不误, in which V is a verb, means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误, to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)
(slang) would be better (abbr. for 這錢買排骨它不香嗎|这钱买排骨它不香吗 for that money, a pork cutlet would be more appetizing, would it not?)
dynamite (loanword)
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
buying and selling at fair prices
can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
(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
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
to buy in bulk / bulk buying
to engage in speculative trading
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)
Best Buy (retailer)
GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018
buyer's market
to do one's shopping
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
purchasing power
to buy popular support / to court favor
money can't buy happiness


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