Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Sep. 2012
In our language to the word to buy we attribute two uses to it, while the job The most widespread term we use is to designate the action of acquiring something, a good, a service, among others, from the delivery of a sum of money established by the person who trades the same. Once the amount is paid for that asset, we become the owner of it and as such we can use it in the way we want, as long as, of course, it does not affect a third party. I really wanted to buy this coffee maker, I finally did.
The action that results as a counterpart to that of buying is the to sell, which will involve handing over, giving someone (the buyer) the property or the dominion of something in exchange for the delivery of a stipulated value.
And on the other hand, we also use the word buy to indicate that action that consists in the delivery of a certain amount of money to someone, or failing that of some material good, with the mission of getting his favor in something or making him change position or action in relation to any matter of our interest
.Generally, the use of this sense of the word buy is closely related to those actions that involve illegal acts or totally remote from the good ones. traditions and the moral.
When the witness of a murder is offered an amount of money so that he does not declare the truth of the fact, what he is doing is buying his silence. In judicial matters, this type of practice turns out to be very common and also in the field of politics It is another context in which it is common to buy the silence or the favor of someone to be able to fulfill satisfactorily with some political objectives, which otherwise, that is, acting in a legal and correct way, would be impossible to get. The ruling party had to buy the vote of the legislator to achieve sanction of the law.
That of acquire is the word that we normally use as a synonym for the word buy.
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