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Buy vs Forestaller - What's the difference?

buy | forestaller |

As nouns the difference between buy and forestaller

is that buy is something which is bought; a purchase while forestaller is a person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices.

As a verb buy

is to obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

buy

English

Verb

  • To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
  • * Benjamin Franklin
    • Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
  • To obtain by some sacrifice.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 23
    • Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
  • To bribe.
  • To be equivalent to in value.
  • (informal) to accept as true; to believe
  • To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
  • (poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one.

    • Synonyms

    * purchase * (accept as true) accept, believe, swallow (informal), take on * make a buy

    Antonyms

    * sell, vend * (accept as true) disbelieve, reject, pitch

    Derived terms

    * bring-and-buy * buyable * buyer * buy back * buy into * buy it * buy to let * buy off * buy out * buy someone off * buy someone out * buy straw hats in winter * buy the farm * buy time * buy up * can I buy you a drink * impulse buy * money can't buy happiness * outbuy * rebuy

    Related terms

    * aby

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which is bought; a purchase.

    • Antonyms

    * sale

    Derived terms

    * buydown * buyout * impulse buy

    References

    * * English irregular verbs English verbs with two objects 1000 English basic words

    forestaller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices

    • Usage notes

    For at least a period of time in the late-18th century, under English Royal law, forestaller had a more narrow meaning which included the concept of not selling again in the same market within three months. By this de jure restriction, legislation attempted to distinguish between a socially useful function (storing grain for a potential future dearth) and an alleged socially harmful function of buying up grain so as to increase the price to the poor or needy by facilitating a so-called excess profit to the intermediary.