Buy and Operate

Buy

Buy verb - To get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for.

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Operate and buy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operate" instead a verb "Buy".

Nearby Words: buyer, buying

Operate verb - To control the mechanical operation of.

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Buy and operate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Buy" instead a verb "Operate".

system	buy system	operate system
piece	buy piece	operate piece
equipment	buy equipment	operate equipment
way	buy way	operate way
Other words: suit, car, weapon, ship, gun, weapons, guns.

They are also inherently noisy, and cannot fly at very high altitudes, while simultaneously carrying only modest payloads and being exorbitantly expensive to buy and operate.

Source: Useful Notes / Plane Spotting
The Merchants MacDoig in the Lonely Werewolf Girl books operate like this, if you don't know where they are then you don't need to buy anything from them.

Source: Secret Shop
To make it worse, the hearts that operate them expire, requiring players to either buy replacements or find recipes and craft replacements quite often.

Source: Video Game / MapleStory

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