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buy

[bahy]

verb, bought, buy⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, esp. in money; purchase.

2.	to acquire by exchange or concession: to buy favor with flattery.

3.	to hire or obtain the services of: The Yankees bought a new center fielder.

4.	to bribe: Most public officials cannot be bought.

5.	to be the monetary or purchasing equivalent of: Ten dollars buys less than it used to.

6.	Chiefly Theology. to redeem; ransom.

7.	Cards. to draw or be dealt (a card): He bought an ace.

Informal.

a.	to accept or believe: I don't buy that explanation.

b.	to be deceived by: He bought the whole story.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to be or become a purchaser.

–noun

10.	an act or instance of buying.

11.	something bought or to be bought; purchase: That coat was a sensible buy.

12.	a bargain: The couch was a real buy.

—Verb phrases

13.	buy down, to lower or reduce (the mortgage interest rate) by means of a buy-down.

14.

buy in,

a.	to buy a supply of; accumulate a stock of.

b.	to buy back one's own possession at an auction.

c.	to undertake a buy-in.

Also, buy into.

15.	buy into, to purchase a share, interest, or membership in: They tried to buy into the club but were not accepted.

16.	buy off, 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.

17.	buy out, 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.

18.	buy up, 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.

—Idiom

19.	buy it, Slang. to get killed: He bought it at Dunkirk.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME byen, var. of byggen, buggen, OE bycgan; c. OS buggjan, Goth bugjan to buy, ON byggja to lend, rent

Related forms:

buy⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. Buy, purchase imply obtaining or acquiring property or goods for a price. Buy is the common and informal word, applying to any such transaction: to buy a house, vegetables at the market. Purchase is more formal and may connote buying on a larger scale, in a finer store, and the like: to purchase a year's supplies.

Antonyms:
1. sell.

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buy (bī)

v. bought (bôt), buy·ing, buys

v. tr.

To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. See Regional Note at boughten.
To be capable of purchasing: "Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy" (Ogden Nash).
To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade: wanted to buy love with gifts.
To bribe: tried to buy a judge.
Informal To accept the truth or feasibility of: The officer didn't buy my lame excuse for speeding.

v. intr.
To purchase something; act as a purchaser.
n.

Something bought or for sale; a purchase.
An act of purchasing: a drug buy.
Something that is underpriced; a bargain.
To acquire a stake or interest in: bought into a risky real estate venture.
Informal To believe in, especially wholeheartedly or uncritically: couldn't buy into that brand of conservatism.

Phrasal Verb(s):
buy into

To acquire a stake or interest in: bought into a risky real estate venture.
Informal To believe in, especially wholeheartedly or uncritically: couldn't buy into that brand of conservatism.

buy offTo bribe (an official, for example) in order to secure improper cooperation or gain exemption from a regulation or legal consequence.
buy outTo purchase the entire stock, business rights, or interests of.
buy upTo purchase all that is available of.

Idiom(s):
buy it Slang To be killed.

Idiom(s):
buy timeTo increase the time available for a specific purpose: "A moderate recovery thus buys time for Congress and the Administration to whittle the deficit" (G. David Wallace).

Idiom(s):
buy the farm Slang To die, especially suddenly or violently.

[Middle English, from Old English bycgan.]
buy'a·ble adj.

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Buy

Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bought; p. pr. & vb. n. Buying.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.]

1. 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.

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. --B. Franklin.

2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.

Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. --Prov. xxiii. 23.

To buy again. See Againbuy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.

To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.

To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.

To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.

To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

Buy

Buy\, v. i. To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

I will buy with you, sell with you. --Shak.

Language Translation for : buy

Spanish: comprar,

German: kaufen,

Japanese: 買う

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buy

O.E. bycgan (pt. bohte) from P.Gmc. *bugjanan (cf. O.S. buggjan, Goth. bugjan), of unknown origin, not found outside Gmc. The surviving spelling is southwest England dialect; the word was generally pronounced in O.E. and M.E. with a -dg- sound as "budge," or "bidge." Meaning "believe, accept as true" first recorded 1926.

Buy

1. A recommendation to purchase a specific security.

2. To acquire an asset in exchange for currency.

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Exact definitions vary by brokerage, but in general this rating is better than neutral but worse than strong buy.

buy

A bargain-priced asset. For example, an analyst may feel that a particular firm owns valuable assets overlooked or undervalued by the financial community. In such an instance, the firm's stock is considered a buy.

buy

To purchase a security or other asset. Compare sell.

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