buying, vbl. n.
(ˈbaɪɪŋ)
[f. buy v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb buy; purchase.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 362 Me ne mei..nout two þongede scheon habben, wiðuten buggunge. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 25 Þei han desceyued hem in byynge of here catel. 1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII, xx. §1 That they coste at the firste byeng or achate. 1528 in Turner Sel. Rec. Oxford 60 Buyings and sellings by retaile. 1713 Guardian No. 76 ¶12 We never have so good a revenue by buying as by lending. 1816 Jane Austen Emma ii. iii. 150 Going on with their buyings. |
b. attrib.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 36 Byynge place, or place of byynge, emptorium. 1727 De Foe Eng. Tradesm. (1841) I. viii. 58 His buying-part requires..a good judgment. 1883 Pall Mall G. 30 Nov. 5/2 Buying orders were received. |
† 2. Theol. Redemption. Obs.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxxix[xxx]. 7 At Laverd it es merci, Fulli bying at him. c 1325 Metr. Hom. (1862) 22 Your bi⁓ing..Ful ner cumen tilward you es. c 1380 Wyclif Serm. xxvii. Sel. Wks. I. 69 Youre bigginge is nyȝe. c 1410 N. Love Bonaventure's Life Christ lxii. (Gibbs MS. f. 119) He suffrede for our redempcioun and byynge. |
3. The purchasing of shares on the stock exchange. buying-in day, the day on which, owing to non-delivery within the appointed time of shares bought, the buyer may purchase the shares on the market; buying-in rule, the rule with regard to buying-in day.
| 1900 Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 7/1 ‘Buying-in Day.’.. He immediately delivers the shares, usually on the day after the buying-in takes place. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 865 The ‘corner’ in Northern Pacific common shares produced..the suspension for two or three weeks of the ‘buying in’ rule. |