Buy

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  • intransitive verb. To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase.
  • intransitive verb. To be capable of purchasing.
  • intransitive verb. To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade.
  • intransitive verb. To bribe.
  • intransitive verb. To accept the truth or feasibility of.
  • intransitive verb. To purchase something; act as a purchaser.
  • noun. Something bought or for sale; a purchase.
  • noun. An act of purchasing.
  • noun. Something that is underpriced; a bargain.
  • phrasal verb. To pay an upfront fee to reduce (an interest rate) over part or all of the term of a loan.
  • phrasal verb. To acquire a stake or interest in.
  • phrasal verb. To believe in, especially wholeheartedly or uncritically.
  • phrasal verb. To bribe (an official, for example) in order to secure improper cooperation or gain exemption from a regulation or legal consequence.
  • phrasal verb. To purchase the entire stock, business rights, or interests of.
  • phrasal verb. To purchase all that is available of.
  • idiom. (buy it) To be killed.
  • idiom. (buy the farm) To die, especially suddenly or violently.
  • idiom. (buy time) To increase the time available for a specific purpose.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To acquire the possession of, or the right or title to, by paying a consideration or an equivalent, usually in money; obtain by paying a price to the seller; purchase: opposed to sell.
  • Hence To get, acquire, or procure for any kind of equivalent: as, to buy favor with flattery.
  • To bribe; corrupt or pervert by giving a consideration; gain over by money, etc.
  • To be sufficient to purchase or procure; serve as an equivalent in procuring: as, gold cannot buy health.
  • To aby; suffer.
  • To buy for the owner at a public sale, especially when an insufficient price is offered.
  • To purchase all the share or shares of (a person) in a stock, fund, or partnership, or all his interest in a business: as, A buys out B.
  • To be or become a purchaser.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
  • transitive verb. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
  • transitive verb. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice.
  • transitive verb. See Againbuy.
  • transitive verb. To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.
  • transitive verb. To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.
  • transitive verb. to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.
  • transitive verb. to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.
  • transitive verb. to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
  • verb. To obtain by some sacrifice.
  • verb. To bribe.
  • verb. To be equivalent to in value.
  • verb. to accept as true; to believe
  • verb. To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
  • verb. To make a bluff, usually a large one.
  • noun. Something which is bought; a purchase.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
  • verb. acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
  • verb. obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
  • verb. accept as true
  • noun. an advantageous purchase
  • verb. be worth or be capable of buying
  • Word Usage
    "If you haven't gotten ten to at least say they'll buy, where do you get your hubris to proclaim that thousands actually will buy?"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    grant  hirer  sale  sell  
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    has_topic
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    acquire  be  believe  get  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai  Alai  Ally  Bi  Bligh  
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    UK  Viagra  Xanax  adultus  back  
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    variant
    bought  
    verb-form
    bought  boughten  buying  buys