Synonyms of buying

buying

verb

present participle of buy

1

as in purchasing

to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for

I really want to buy that new book, but I don't have enough money right now

Synonyms & Similar Words

• purchasing
• taking
• getting
• obtaining
• acquiring
• procuring
• copping
• winning
• picking up
• securing
• financing
• gaining
• paying (for)
• garnering
• dealing (for)
• offering
• bargaining (with)
• springing (for)
• negotiating (about)
• exchanging (for)
• trading (for)
• repurchasing
• bidding
• haggling (for)
• rebuying
• bartering (for)
• dickering (over)
• paltering (with)
• chaffering (with)
• horse-trading (with)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• selling
• dealing (in)
• marketing
• vending
• merchandising
• retailing

2

as in bribing

to influence someone with a bribe

there were rumors that the mobster had bought the judge

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bribing
• having
• seducing
• luring
• enticing
• persuading
• corrupting
• poisoning
• provoking
• getting at
• tempting
• squaring
• paying off
• inducing
• subverting
• debauching
• dishonoring
• motivating
• tainting
• tampering (with)
• spurring
• prostituting
• oiling the hand of
• debasing
• fixing
• defiling
• degrading
• warping
• depraving
• trapping
• baiting
• stimulating
• perverting
• demeaning
• greasing the hand of
• profaning
• abasing
• alluring
• goading
• leading on
• beguiling
• snaring
• flattering

3

as in believing

to regard as right or true

if you buy that story, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in

Synonyms & Similar Words

• believing
• taking
• accepting
• understanding
• trusting
• swallowing
• crediting
• accounting
• assuming
• setting store by
• presuming
• accrediting
• deducing
• supposing
• inferring
• concluding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejecting
• discrediting
• questioning
• disbelieving
• suspecting
• doubting
• distrusting
• mistrusting
• challenging
• disputing
• misdoubting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of buying

What’s new is how quickly the beverage industry is treating it as a category of its own, and how many consumers are buying in. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026

Stock futures are off their low of the morning after my CNBC colleague Steve Liesman reported that the Treasury Department could use its massive General Account to help fund its bond-buying plans. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

NielsenIQ data cited by Food and Wine shows 47% of on-premise visitors already engage in zebra striping, and 93% of consumers buying non-alcoholic beer, wine and spirits are also purchasing traditional alcoholic products. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026

However, before anything else, make sure that the child has some basic hand-eye coordination before buying a set. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

Enterprises buying an appliance, an edge inference product or a private deployment from a systems integrator should ask which artifact ships inside it. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

The company also acquired a bank, expanded to tourism and even considered buying an airline. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Race fans love Larson, especially the grass root, local track, lifelong fans who have been buying Busch Lights and corn dogs at the local backroad track every Saturday night since 1975. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026

None of these movies are worth buying and installing a DVD player for! — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026