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buy `verb` [ bʌɪ ]

• obtain in exchange for payment.

• "she bought six first-class stamps"

Similar: purchase, make a/the purchase of, acquire, obtain, get, pick up, snap up, take, secure, procure, come by, pay for, shop for, invest in, put money into, get hold of, get one's hands on, lay one's hands on, get one's mitts on, score,

Opposite: sell,

• accept the truth of.

• "I am not prepared to buy the claim that the ends justify the means"

buy `noun`

• a purchase.

• "wine is rarely a good buy in duty-free shops"

Similar: purchase, deal, bargain, investment, acquisition, addition, gain, asset, possession, holding,

Origin: Old English bycgan, of Germanic origin.

buy it

• be killed.

buy time

• delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position.

buy in

• buy supplies or commodities in large quantities from an external supplier.
"we have garlic, onions, and potatoes from last year's crop, but we have to buy in everything else"

buy into

• accept the truth of something.
"I hate to buy into stereotypes"

buy off

• dishonestly pay someone to prevent them doing something against one's interests.
"I'll buy off the investigators"

buy out

• pay someone to give up ownership or a share of something.
"when their affair ended, she bought him out"

buy up

• pay to acquire a large amount or the whole stock of something.
"he had been able to buy up hundreds of acres"

buy verb [ bʌɪ ]

buy noun