# buy (economic)

to get a product by giving price

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: linguistics  ·  Arena: lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [price](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-price.economic), [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods), [get](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-get.acquisition), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application)

**Through:** price is given to get a product.

**Novel properties:**
- transfer of ownership
- exchange asymmetry
- mutual benefit in trade

## Examples
- In 2023, Walmart paid $3.4 billion to acquire the medical clinic chain Take Care Health. *(economics)*
- The James Webb Space Telescope cost NASA $10 billion to build and deploy. *(engineering)*
- Apple customers spent $1.1 trillion in the App Store from 2010 to 2022. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [advertising](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-advertising.commercial) (L13)
- [commercial](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-commercial.economic) (L18)
- [consumer](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consumer.economic) (L10)
- [safety](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-safety.security) (L15)

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