Something which is bought; a purchase.
At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of ...
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I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.
To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
VVhat villaine, doſt ſtrike me? I ſweare by the rood, As I am Iacke Strawe, thou ſhalt buy it with thy blood.