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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:

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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

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: Chinese: 团购, romanized: tuán gòu, lit. 'team buying'), a method of bulk purchase to reduce price
Mass buying (AKA bulk purchasing), the consumer side of wholesaling

"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

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

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

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

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

Iryna Buy (Ukrainian: Ірина Буй), a Ukrainian Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier
Margherita Buy, an Italian actress
Mykola Buy (Ukrainian: Микола Буй), a Ukrainian footballer
Ma Buying (Chinese: 馬步英; 马步英, romanized: Mǎ Bùyīng; Ma Pu-ying), the birth name of Chinese Muslim warlord Ma Zhongying

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