panic buying

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panic buying

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Noun

panic buying (usually uncountable, plural panic buyings)

1. (business, finance) The buying of commodities or other assets earlier than normal, or in quantities greater than normal, because of rumours of coming shortages or price rises.

Translations

buying of commodities earlier than normal

Chinese: Mandarin: 搶購 / 抢购 (zh) (qiǎnggòu) Danish: hamstring c Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hamstraus (fi) French: achats de panique (fr) m pl German: Panikkauf m, Panikkäufe m pl Hungarian: pánikvásárlás Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: cumpărare de panică f Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: compras de pánico f pl Vietnamese: mua sắm do sợ hãi, mua sắm do lo sợ

See also

• impulse buying
• panic selling
• revenge buying