BUY FOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buy food mean? 

• BUY FOOD (verb)
  The verb BUY FOOD has 1 sense:

1. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home

  Familiarity information: BUY FOOD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUY FOOD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

buy food; take out

Hypernyms (to "buy food" is one way to...):

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“Why do they not buy food then?” asked Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No fault, my fair lord, but a virtue: for how many rich ransoms have you won, and yet have scattered the crowns among page and archer and varlet, until in a week you had not as much as would buy food and forage.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)