買

to buy / to purchase

net (Kangxi radical 122)

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

to purchase / to bribe

Jamaica

Mumbai (formerly Bombay)

to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army / fig. to expand business / to recruit new staff

to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion

to purchase / to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent / buyer

to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate

An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.

to buy in bulk / bulk buying

buying and selling on speculation

to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)

Jamaican pepper / all-spice (Pimenta dioica)

Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)

lit. An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time. (idiom) / fig. Time is precious and must be treasured.

a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt

dynamite (loanword)

to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal

buying and selling at fair prices

can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)

lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point / idiom mocking scholastic pomposity