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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 reflectionplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPULSE-BUY (verb)


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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