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bulk buying

 
 
noun [U] COMMERCE

Definition

the activity of buying large quantities of a product, especially to get cheaper prices: Supermarkets do not seem to encourage bulk buying: their prices for multiple products are not much cheaper than buying the products individually.
(Definition of bulk buying noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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