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Paying vs Buying - What's the difference?

paying | buying |

As verbs the difference between paying and buying

is that paying is while buying is .

As nouns the difference between paying and buying

is that paying is payment while buying is the act of making a purchase.

paying

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • payment
  • * Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy
  • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

    buying

    English

    (wikipedia buying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * impulse buying * panic buying

    Noun

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