The phrase "aid buying" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context discussing assistance in purchasing or financial support for buying something, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The organization focuses on aid buying to help families afford essential goods."
Alternatives: "assistance in purchasing" or "financial support for buying".
Except for people suffering from recurrent depression they are only first aid, buying you time to sort out the issues that caused the depression in the first place, but never to use them is to miss an opportunity to provide relief from this horrible illness.
An industry that was getting $33 billion a year in federal aid, buying its executives lavish homes, private planes, nights on the town, Park Avenue dinner parties, and fancy ski junkets, is now in remarkable disarray.
"We care a lot … about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought," drawled Mosley.
The aid buys time for Argentina and the I.M.F. to pursue the creative long-term solution that Mr. O'Neill sought.
Egyptian leaders often feel that the United States is getting more than its money's worth if its aid buys Egypt's allegiance.
Mary F. Sammons, Rite Aid's chief executive, said it was taking longer than planned to improve results at 1,800 Brooks and Eckerd stores that Rite Aid bought in June 2007.
Keith Williams, a spokesman for Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia and chairman of the Agriculture Committee, said yesterday that there were concerns that food aid bought abroad might not be delivered as reliably as aid bought in the United States, and that such purchases might drive up food prices and worsen scarcity in drought-stricken areas.
And the revised deal will let Rite Aid buy generic drugs through a Walgreens affiliate, allowing the smaller chain access to the lower prices enjoyed by its bigger competitor.
The official, Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Emma Bonino, said that the measures had left Iraq facing "unbearable hardships" and that aid bought under a United Nations food-for-oil agreement was taking too long to reach the people who needed it most.
A recent 2005 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, finds that tied food aid, food aid that donors require recipients import from the donor country food aid procured in North America to ship to Africa or to Asia costs on average at least 50% more than food aid bought locally, bought in a recipient country's surplus zones.
"$1.7bn in aid buys you the capacity to have that conversation," says the source.
