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Buying vs Purchasing - What's the difference?

buying | purchasing |

As verbs the difference between buying and purchasing

is that buying is while purchasing is .

As nouns the difference between buying and purchasing

is that buying is the act of making a purchase while purchasing is the act of making a purchase.

buying

English

(wikipedia buying)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * impulse buying * panic buying

    Noun

  • The act of making a purchase.
    • buyings and sellings

    purchasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a purchase.
  • * 1936 , James Arthur Fulton, Our economic nationalism: its purpose and importance (page 84)
    • As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us