unbuying
unbuying adjective: not making purchases.
Adjective
unbuying (not comparable)
- Not making purchases.
- Consider that one third of the whole are the miserably poor, unbuying blacks.1885, Alexander Johnston, The Anti-Slavery Struggle, page 228
- […] to be cheap, cheap, cheap, so as to open a market far away among the unbuying crowd hidden away in the dust holes of our country.1975, John Greenleaf Whittier, John B. Pickard, The Letters, page 136
Origin of unbuying
From un- + buying.
Words that rhyme with unbuying
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about unbuying
- What does unbuying mean?
- Unbuying means not making purchases.
- What part of speech is unbuying?
- Unbuying is an adjective.
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