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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unbuying en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + buying.

Meanings

  1. (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: