Buys
Trades
Both words in one sentence
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The Merchant - buys and sells various wares, and trades with foreign lands.
Source: Videogame / The Sims Medieval -
He even gets into this as Commander of the Watch: for example, when his wife buys him new, expensive boots, he always trades them for the cheap, barely-a-sole-to-them boots like he used to wear, because he can tell exactly where he is in the city based on how the stones feel on his feet.
Source: Modest Royalty -
Subverted in the episode "Lost Our Lisa." Homer, wanting to get to higher ground to look for Lisa, buys a bunch of balloons, says "I hope this works"... and then trades them to a construction worker for the use of his cherry picker.
Source: Balloonacy
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