Buying may refer to purchasing of goods and services with money or via barter in a trade, thereby achieving acquisition or procurement of them.

Buy or buying may also refer to:

  • Buying agent (AKA purchasing agent, indent agent, indenting agent), someone who offers to buy something on behalf of someone else
  • Buying center (AKA decision-making unit, DMU)
  • Buy-up coverage, additional crop insurance for which farmers pay a premium
  • Cross-buy, a feature of some digital distribution systems

Financial trading

  • Buy and hold (AKA position trading), an investment strategy
  • Buyout, a method of taking control of a company
  • Buy/sell spread, a bid–ask spread for a market maker
  • Buy side in investment banking
  • Buy-stop order, a trading instruction used to limit a loss
  • Buy to let, purchasing a property to rent it out

Buying in bulk

  • Buying club (AKA buyers club), a group making purchases together to get lower prices or obtain hard-to-get goods
  • Buying power, a type of bargaining power relating to a purchaser and a supplier
  • Co-buying (AKA cooperative buying), organizing people or companies together to increase negotiation power
  • Collective buying power, the ability of a group of consumers or businesses to better negotiate for discounts
  • Group buying (AKA collective buying; originating as: ), a method of bulk purchase to reduce price
  • Mass buying (AKA bulk purchasing), the consumer side of wholesaling

Marketing tactics

  • "Buy local" or "buy locally", a slogan for local purchasing
  • Buy on board in commercial aviation
  • Buy here, pay here (BHPH), a method of offering a line of credit to customers at a used car dealership
  • Buy now, pay later (BNPL), a type of short-term debt financing
  • Buy one, get one free (BOGOF), a kind of promotion
  • Predictive buying, the use of algorithmic analytics to guess customers' patterns for targeted advertising

Reasons for buying

  • Buying decision process (AKA buyer decision process), consumer behavior around purchasing
  • Compulsive buying disorder (CBD), an obsession with shopping
  • Impulse buy (AKA impulse purchase), an unplanned decision to buy something
  • Panic buying (AKA panic purchasing), increased consumer activity around times of disaster and before price increases and shortages
  • Preclusive buying (AKA preemptive buying, preclusive purchasing), an economic warfare tactic in which a belligerent in a conflict purchases matériel and operations from neutral countries to reduce how much others can buy
  • Revenge buying (AKA revenge shopping, revenge spending), a sudden surge in consumer activity after people are denied the opportunity to shop for extended periods of time

By what is purchased

  • Bride buying, the cultural practice of providing some form of payment in exchange for marriage
  • Buying land (in a process known as conveyancing), purchasing legal title of real property
  • Buying oneself out of service (AKA discharge by purchase), the process of obtaining a military discharge by making a payment as a fine
  • Buy-to-play, the opposite of a subscription revenue model for video games
  • Child buying, human trafficking of children / child-buying, the flip side of child selling
  • Debt buying, purchasing delinquent or charged-off debts from a creditor or lender
  • Media buying, procurement of advertising
  • Salary buying, a kind of offer by a loan shark
  • Vote buying (AKA electoral clientelism, patronage politics), a political campaign method that is illegal in many countries

Places

  • Buy (inhabited locality) [], any of several inhabited localities in Russia
  • Buy (river), a river in Perm Krai and the republics of Bashkortostan and Udmurtia in Russia

Airports with code "BUY"

  • FAA LID: Burlington–Alamance Regional Airport (ICAO: KBUY), Alamance County, North Carolina, United States
  • IATA: Bunbury Airport (ICAO: YBUN), Western Australia

People

  • Iryna Buy (), a Ukrainian Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier
  • Margherita Buy, an Italian actress
  • Mykola Buy (), a Ukrainian footballer
  • Ma Buying (), the birth name of Chinese Muslim warlord Ma Zhongying

Websites

  • buy.at, an online affiliate marketing platform launched in 2002
  • Buy.com, a shopping website founded in 1997; renamed Rakuten.com/shop in 2010

Other uses

  • Buy (album), 1979 album by James Chance and the Contortions
  • Buy, slang for believe, find credible, be convinced
  • Buy language (AKA Uboi, Gu-boy, Kobiana, Cobiana), a Wolof–Nyun Senegambian language spoken in several villages of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau
  • Buy (cards), the action of getting one or more cards in certain games

See also

  • By (disambiguation)
  • Bui (disambiguation)
  • Bouy (disambiguation)
  • Buoy (disambiguation)
  • Buys, a Dutch surname
  • Buies:
  • Buies Creek, North Carolina, United States, a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Neills Creek Township, drained by the stream Buies Creek
  • Arthur Buies/Joseph-Marie-Arthur (1840–1901), a journalist and essayist from Quebec, Canada
  • LaBuy:
  • Walter J. LaBuy, a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • Buying in (disambiguation)
  • Buyback (disambiguation)
  • Oyster buy-boat
  • WP:BUY → Wikipedia:Notability cannot be purchased
  • Help:Buying Wikipedia
  • Purchase (disambiguation)
  • Sell (disambiguation)