BIY

English Etymology en buy it yourself, inspired by en DIY. Noun - The act of purchasing materials for a project (typically a home renovation) and then hiring a professional to use them. Stephen Kindel Split‐Level Sprawl in Europe https://web.archive.org/web/20180210004024/http://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/23/archives/splitlevel-sprawl-in-europe-popularity-of-americanstyle-tract-homes.html 23 April 1978 UBM, which has 120 fully‐stocked branches around Britain, sees a growing demand for what it calls the B.I.Y. (buy-it-yourself) market of self‐contractors who select their components and then pay a tradesman for installation. en Marketing 10 April 1987 BIY is where consumers buy the materials for professionals to fit. "According to the Polycell Report, from Reed's Polycell Products, DIY is being replaced by BIY (Buy-it-yourself)," John Cassy B&Q moves in with its China ware https://web.archive.org/web/20140509181900/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2001/aug/09/china.internationalnews 9 August 2001 B&Q has been learning lessons in China from the moment it opened its first store in 1999. People here prefer the term BIY - buy it yourself, and then employ labour to do the work for them. on Orient Homes chief Li Fengjiang tools up for China's DIY revolution https://web.archive.org/web/20221121125154/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/6091955/Orient-Homes-chief-Li-Fengjiang-tools-up-for-Chinas-DIY-revolution.html 27 August 2009 It is less DIY, however, than BIY: Buy-it-Yourself. Usage notes BIY is considered to be a middle ground between en DIY do it yourself and hiring a contractor who completes the work completely on their own. References