Buying in spanish
pronunciation: koʊmpɹ̩ɑndoʊ part of speech: noun
buy2 = comprar, adquirir. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio bought]
Example: Discount charges are available by contracting to buy a predetermined number of connect hours per year.more:
» buy + a pig in a poke = comprar a ciegas, dar gato por liebre.
Example: You might say we buy 'a pig in a poke' every four years, except that no pig has ever done the kind of damage our recent presidents have done.» buy back = recomprar.
Example: Need a short-term loan? Our buy-back option gives you the opportunity to sell items for cash and buy the items back at a later date.» buy cheap, pay dear = lo barato sale caro.
Example: Buy cheap, pay dear, so the old saying goes, applies well to most computer systems = Lo barato sale caro, como dice el refrán, se aplica muy bien a la mayoría de los sistemas informáticos.» buy + dearly = comprar caro, pagar caro.
Example: This progress was bought dearly with the lives of pioneering aviators.» buy + direct(ly) = comprar directamente.
Example: The depot buys the books for the schools and passes on to them some of the discount it receives by buying direct from the publishers.» buy in = hacerse de, comprar, adquirir, contratar.
Example: Yet the genuine stockholding bookseller is committed to holding good stocks of books for the customers' benefit which means that he does not aim simply at buying in the books with the quickest turnover.» buy in + bulk = comprar al por mayor.
Example: The raw material of white paper was undyed linen -- or in very early days hempen -- rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.» buy in + instalments = comprar a plazos.
Example: Most used cars are bought in installments, meaning you make a regular monthly pay- ment to your creditor until the loan is paid in full.» buy into = apoyar.
Example: The vendor, like the academic librarian it services, it must buy into the mission of the academic institution.» buy + Nombre + by the weight = comprar al peso.
Example: The pizza here is delicious and you buy it by the weight of your slice.» buy + Nombre + for a song = comprar por cuatro perras, comprar por cuatro duros, comprar casi regalado, comprar casi tirado, comprar por casi nada.
Example: Most of them had been foreclosed, and she bought them for a song, often just for the unpaid taxes.» buy + Nombre + out of = rescindir un contrato. [Pagando una compensación económica]
Example: Some of the information supplied by a library is directed towards solving pragmatic problems of everyday living such as 'What ca I do about an abandoned car outside my front door?', 'I want to buy my son out of the Navy', 'My friend has just taken an overdose'.» buy + off-the-shelf = comprar Algo ya hecho de antemano, comprar Algo hecho en serie, comprar un producto comercial.
Example: There are three sources of applications software: (a) bought off-the-shelf; (b) commissioned from a software house; (c) written in-house, either by the librarian or by the computer staff.» buy + Reflexivo = comprarse.
Example: It was getting on toward six o'clock so I thought I'd buy myself a beer and go out and sit in a deck chair by the swimming pool.» buy + time = conseguir tiempo, ganar tiempo.
Example: Companies mounted a successful campaign for federal preemption of all local moratoriums that communities had used to buy more time to assess issues, risks, and opportunities.» buy + time = comprar tiempo, alquilar tiempo.
Example: Smaller libraries may co-operate in a network and have shared access to a commercially-owned computer or may buy time on a computer belonging to another organization.» not buy it = no creérselo, no estar convencido.
Example: Virginia is claiming that global warming is 'unreliable, unverifiable and doctored' science, but the state's climatologists aren't buying it.buying = compra.
Example: The library has a centre for buying, cataloguing and storing microform, audio-visual media and other non-book material.more:
» book buying [book-buying] = compra de libros.
Example: Towards the end of the sixteenth century, about 1598, Sir Thomas Bodley was preparing to go on a book-buying expedition for the library.» buying habit = hábito de consumo, hábito de compra.
Example: There are firms that can compile profiles of users' buying habits based on the type of Web transactions and user behaviour recorded from the Web and sell this information on to other bodies.» buying option = opción de compra.
Example: This buyers guide provides information on needs assessment, buying options, and decision making tips when acquiring a new school athletic track.» buying power = poder adquisitivo, capacidad adquisitiva.
Example: Despite the decline in the general rate of inflation, the buying power of libraries has continued to dwindle = A pesar del descenso de la tasa general de inflación, el poder adquisitivo de las bibliotecas ha continuado descendiendo.» car buying = compra de coches.
Example: Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike.» house buying = compra de vivienda, adquisición de vivienda.
Example: But for now, consider the five-year rule of house buying -- that is, when deciding to buy a home, assume that you'll stay in it for at least five years.