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buy
[ bahy ]
verb (used with object)
- to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
Antonyms:
- to acquire by exchange or concession:
to buy favor with flattery.
- to hire or obtain the services of:
The Yankees bought a new center fielder.
- to bribe:
Most public officials cannot be bought.
- to be the monetary or purchasing equivalent of:
Ten dollars buys less than it used to.
- Chiefly Theology. to redeem; ransom.
- Cards. to draw or be dealt (a card):
He bought an ace.
- Informal.
- to accept or believe:
I don't buy that explanation.
- to be deceived by:
He bought the whole story.
verb (used without object)
- to be or become a purchaser.
noun
- an act or instance of buying.
- something bought or to be bought; purchase:
That coat was a sensible buy.
- a bargain:
The couch was a real buy.
verb phrase
- to purchase a share, interest, or membership in:
They tried to buy into the club but were not accepted.
- to lower or reduce (the mortgage interest rate) by means of a buy-down.
- to secure all of (an owner or partner's) share or interest in an enterprise:
She bought out an established pharmacist and is doing very well.
- Also buy into.
- to buy a supply of; accumulate a stock of.
- to buy back one's own possession at an auction.
- to undertake a buy-in.
- to get rid of (a claim, opposition, etc.) by payment; purchase the noninterference of; bribe:
The corrupt official bought off those who might expose him.
- to buy as much as one can of something or as much as is offered for sale:
He bought up the last of the strawberries at the fruit market.
buy
/ ²ú²¹Éª /
verb
- to acquire by paying or promising to pay a sum of money or the equivalent; purchase
- to be capable of purchasing
money can't buy love
- to acquire by any exchange or sacrifice
to buy time by equivocation
- intr to act as a buyer
- to bribe or corrupt; hire by or as by bribery
- slang.to accept as true, practical, etc
- intrfoll byinto to purchase shares of (a company)
we bought into General Motors
- tr theol (esp of Christ) to ransom or redeem (a Christian or the soul of a Christian)
- have bought it slang.to be killed
noun
- a purchase (often in the phrases good or bad buy )
Usage
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú³Ü²âa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
- ²Ô´Ç²Ô·²ú³Ü²âi²Ô²µ adjective noun
- ±è°ù±ð·²ú³Ü²â verb (used with object) prebought prebuying
- °ù±ð·²ú³Ü²â verb rebought rebuying
- un·²ú³Ü²âa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²ú³Ü²âi²Ô²µ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of buy1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of buy1
Idioms and Phrases
- buy it, Slang. to get killed:
He bought it at Dunkirk.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Teenagers are buying stab vests online and wearing them to school, an anti-knife campaigner has said.
"And on the rental side we need more people willing to rent their properties, or willing to buy properties, refurbish them and put them on the rental market."
US President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs - or import taxes - for nearly every country in the world could push prices up on almost all the staples Americans routinely buy, from clothes to coffee.
Ten years ago, he helped front an ownership group that bought B45, long among the more innovative manufacturers in the world of bat-making.
The Canal and River Trust, which runs the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, has used money which was earmarked for repairs to buy a short-term supply from Welsh Water.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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