unbuying

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ buying

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

unbuying (not comparable)

  1. Not making purchases.
    • 1885, Alexander Johnston, The Anti-Slavery Struggle, page 228:
      Consider that one third of the whole are the miserably poor, unbuying blacks.
    • 1975, John Greenleaf Whittier, John B. Pickard, The Letters, page 136:
      […] 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.
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