unbuying

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ buying.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

Adjective

unbuying (not comparable)

1. Not making purchases.
   • 1885, Alexander Johnston, The Anti-Slavery Struggle, page 228:

     Consider that one third of the whole are the miserably poor, unbuying blacks.

   • 1975, John Greenleaf Whittier, John B. Pickard, The Letters, page 136:

     […] to be cheap, cheap, cheap, so as to open a market far away among the unbuying crowd hidden away in the dust holes of our country.