{
  "id": "buy.economic",
  "term": "buy",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "linguistics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to get a product by giving price",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "price.economic",
      "products.goods",
      "get.acquisition",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "price is given to get a product.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "transfer of ownership",
      "exchange asymmetry",
      "mutual benefit in trade"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Walmart paid $3.4 billion to acquire the medical clinic chain Take Care Health.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope cost NASA $10 billion to build and deploy.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple customers spent $1.1 trillion in the App Store from 2010 to 2022.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertising.commercial",
    "commercial.economic",
    "consumer.economic",
    "safety.security"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "bought",
    "buy",
    "buying",
    "buys"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'get.acquisition' and 'use.application' to align with the definition. Slight rewording of definition for precision and naturalness, preserving original intent."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-buy.economic"
}