to buy and sell

purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store

to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)

buyer; purchaser

to pay the bill; to pick up the tab

cannot afford; can't afford buying

to buy tickets; (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)

to ingratiate oneself

customer

to bribe

to buy groceries

to buy a house

to purchase; to buy in (goods)

to buy (finance)

to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows

buy one, get one free; two for the price of one

buying price

to hire a hitman

comprador

to buy back; to redeem; repurchase

to buy an official title; to use wealth to acquire office

to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative); to accept (a version of events); to buy it

to buy out; buyout; severance

buyer (in contracts)

to visit a prostitute; (literary) to buy wine or drinks

to buy on margin (finance)

variant of 買帳|买帐[mai3 zhang4]

to do one's shopping

to offer a bribe

see 買路錢|买路钱[mai3 lu4 qian2]

money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll; (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession

to allow sb to save face; to defer to

(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018

buying and selling of official positions

buyer's market

to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside; to show poor judgment (idiom)

to speculate; to play the market; (fig.) to sell hot air; to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator

lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness; abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)