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IMPULSE-BUY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impulse-buy mean?
• IMPULSE-BUY (verb)
The verb IMPULSE-BUY has 1 sense:
1. buy on impulse without proper reflection
Familiarity information: IMPULSE-BUY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Buy on impulse without proper reflection
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "impulse-buy" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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