comprar
buy ; purchase ; take over ; shop ; bribe ; grease + Posesivo + palm ; oil + Posesivo + palm ; call + Nombre + Posesivo + own ; snap up.
Discount charges are available by contracting to buy a predetermined number of connect hours per year.
This mode of publication permits special libraries to purchase relevant parts and facilitates revision at a later date.
Pergamon-INFOLINE came into being in its present form in 1980 when it was taken over by Pergamon.
Before shopping for a new computer, you should make a plan detailing what you can afford, what you expect to do with the computer, and how much the computer is worth to you.
Local officials can easily be bribed by foreign pharmaceutical laboratories.
The local bishop was under his thumb, our priest greased his palm well.
The judge has to be bribed and if you can't afford to 'oil his palm' your case will never reach court.
This 12-room penthouse of the newly renovated Mark Hotel is up for sale but it will cost you a princely sum to call it your own.
Music has notorious magpie tendencies, snapping up stylistic valuables wherever they may be found.
comprar a ciegas
buy + a pig in a poke
You might say we buy 'a pig in a poke' every four years, except that no pig has ever done the kind of damage our recent presidents have done.
comprar Algo
make + a purchase
A librarian should be as unwilling to allow an enquirer to leave the library with his question unanswered as a shop-keeper is to have a customer go out of his store without making a purchase.
comprar Algo hecho en serie
buy + off-the-shelf
There are three sources of applications software: (a) bought off-the-shelf; (b) commissioned from a software house; (c) written in-house, either by the librarian or by the computer staff.
comprar Algo ya hecho de antemano
buy + off-the-shelf
There are three sources of applications software: (a) bought off-the-shelf; (b) commissioned from a software house; (c) written in-house, either by the librarian or by the computer staff.
comprar al por mayor
buy in + bulk
The raw material of white paper was undyed linen - or in very early days hempen - rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.
comprar a plazos
buy in + instalments
Most used cars are bought in installments, meaning you make a regular monthly pay- ment to your creditor until the loan is paid in full.
comprar comparando productos
shop around
shopping around
In strong contrast to, say, television sets and instant coffee, where the consumer may save by shopping around, there is no advantage to be gained by going to one shop rather than another for a book so far as price is concerned.
Consequently, the skill of shopping around and assessing the cost-effectiveness of a supplier's goods and services is important for the librarian to develop.
comprar directamente
buy + direct(ly)
The depot buys the books for the schools and passes on to them some of the discount it receives by buying direct from the publishers.
comprar en cantidad
stock up
Read on for 10 eco-friendly things that you can do with lemons, then hot-foot it to your local farmers' market to stock up.
comprar hasta caer muerto
shop 'til you drop
The article is entitled 'Shop 'til your modem drops. Internet shopping network is making strides as it learns how to sell in cyberspace'.
comprar hasta reventar
shop 'til you drop
The article is entitled 'Shop 'til your modem drops. Internet shopping network is making strides as it learns how to sell in cyberspace'.
comprar regularmente en una tienda
patronise + shop
Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
comprarse
change + hands
This handbook is a collector's guide to popular children's beanbag animal toys, rare examples of which change hands for thousand of dollars = Este manual es una guía para el coleccionista de animales de juguete rellenos de bolitas para niños, algunos de los cuales (los más raros) se llegan a vender por miles de dólares.
comprar tiempo
buy + time
Smaller libraries may co-operate in a network and have shared access to a commercially-owned computer or may buy time on a computer belonging to another organization.
comprar un producto comercial
buy + off-the-shelf
There are three sources of applications software: (a) bought off-the-shelf; (b) commissioned from a software house; (c) written in-house, either by the librarian or by the computer staff.
darse el gusto de comprar
splurge on
On the other hand, a few weeks later I decided to splurge on Adobe Acrobat 6.0, and I have not looked back.
novelas o libros que se compran en el supermercado
self-help
Should we ignore the major trade publishers for almost everything except genre fiction, blockbusters, popular self-help, celebrity biographies and exposés?.
que se compra
priced
Much of this is free games software, with some educational programs, but there are also some priced applications programs available.
