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| | to purchase; to buy | HSK 4 |
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| | to buy; to purchase; to procure | HSK 5 |
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| | regimental command / head of a delegation / group buy organizer; group-buying coordinator | HSK 5 |
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| | buying and selling / business / business transactions / CL: 樁|桩, 次 | HSK 5 |
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| | to buy / to purchase | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to install / to place / to put / to buy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to purchase; to buy / to bribe; to buy off | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pull / to tear / (of cloth, thread etc) to buy / to chat / to gossip / (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous / hokey | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to begin (with ...) (typically used in a structure such as 從|从 + {noun} + 入手: "to begin with {noun}; to take {noun} as one's starting point") / to receive; to obtain; to buy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cannot afford / can't afford buying | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to buy (on behalf of sb) | |
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| | to ask to buy / to bid for purchase | |
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| | group buying / collective buying / buying by a group of individuals who negotiate a discount for the group | |
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| | to select and purchase / to buy | |
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| | to buy frenetically / to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc) | |
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| | to buy out / buyout / severance | |
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| | to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement | |
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| | to buy and sell / peddling | |
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| | to buy on credit / to delay payment | |
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| | to buy a house | |
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| | to buy real estate | |
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| | to buy / to sell | |
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| | to buy or sell on credit / outstanding account / to have an outstanding account | |
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| | to purchase / to buy in (goods) | |
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| | to seek to purchase; to be looking to buy (sth) | |
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| | to bid competitively / to compete to buy (at auction) | |
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| | a mortgage (loanword via Cantonese) / to buy property on a mortgage | |
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| | merchant / to buy | |
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| | to deal in / to buy and sell / to trade in / to retail / to peddle | |
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| | to buy detail / to buy one at a time | |
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| | one's share of expenses (e.g. when buying a gift collectively) / cash gift | |
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| | to purchase / to buy | |
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| | to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom) | |
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| | (coll.) shill; tout; phony customer who pretends to buys things so as to lure real customers | |
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| | a fraudulent purchase / to buy up sth illegally | |
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| | to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame / to conduct a media blitz / to manipulate a stock market through large-scale buying and selling | |
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| | to purchase; to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent; buyer | |
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| | to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling | |
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| | to buy / to acquire / to add to one's possessions | |
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| | buyback / repurchase / to buy back | |
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| | to buy or sell on credit / distant / long (time) / to forgive | |
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| | to buy on a considerable scale / to purchase / to procure / to stock up | |
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| | buying price | |
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| | to borrow / to buy on credit / to rent out | |
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| | to panic buy / to loot | |
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| | to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc / to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater | |
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| | to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election) | |
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| | lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff | |
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| | to include (as a free gift, when buying sth) / to come with | |
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| | to sell an item only as part of a bundle (thereby forcing consumers to buy goods they do not want); to sell on a tie-in basis | |
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| | to buy up (grain) | |
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| | to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.) | |
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| | to visit a prostitute / (literary) to buy wine or drinks | |
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| | to offer credit / credit transaction / to buy or sell on account | |
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| | to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it | |
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| | to respond to the market / to buy or sell according to market conditions | |
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| | to buy again | |
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| | to buy votes (in an election) | |
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| | to purchase / to buy (usu. real estate) | |
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| | to buy (finance) | |
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| | to buy back / to redeem / repurchase | |
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| | to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to go on a shopping spree; to buy in bulk | |
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| | to buy on margin (finance) | |
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| | (coll.) to ride in sb else's car to save money / to ride on a train or bus without buying a ticket (fare-dodging) | |
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| | to buy a title / to use wealth to acquire office | |
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| | person who joins with others to reduce costs (carpooling, group buying, sharing an apartment etc) | |
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| | to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business | |
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| | An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious. | |
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| | to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay | |
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| | (neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society) | |
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| | (Tw) to buy off influential people (in an election, a call for tenders etc) | |
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| | buy one, get one free / two for the price of one | |
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| | buying and selling of official positions | |
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| | lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (idiom) / fig. time is precious | |
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| | used in expressions of the form 照V 不誤|照V 不误, in which V is a verb, 照 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) | |
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| | to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage | |
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| | to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal | |
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| | buying direct from your company at preferential prices / (gaming) in-app purchase | |
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| | buying and selling at fair prices | |
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| | to buy (sth extra); to make an additional purchase | |
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| | to buy the whole lot / to take everything remaining | |
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| | to buy an all-night package / (esp.) to book a prostitute for the night | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance | |
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| | to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion | |
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| | to check; to tick / (old) to buy | |
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| | to buy wholesale | |
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| | to buy soy sauce / it's none of my business ("I’m just here to buy some soy sauce") | |
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| | (coll.) (neologism c. 2017, a play on 伏地魔) woman who devotes herself to supporting her little brother (assisting him with his studies, giving money to help him buy a house etc) | |
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| | to buy in bulk / bulk buying | |
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| | (of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business / (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others / (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around | |
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| | fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house | |
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| | to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc) | |
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| | to act with urgency / to buy time | |
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| | Best Buy (retailer) | |
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| | to invest in stock / to buy shares | |
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| | lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness / abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom) | |
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