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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
/ 产补瑟 /
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 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 产耻测顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 苍辞苍路产耻测顎僫苍驳 adjective noun
- 辫谤别路产耻测顎 verb (used with object) prebought prebuying
- 谤别路产耻测顎 verb rebought rebuying
- un路产耻测顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 耻苍路产耻测顎僫苍驳 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of buy1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of buy1
Idioms and Phrases
- buy it, Slang. to get killed:
He bought it at Dunkirk.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
While he and his wife could buy their first home while young, he said, "there's no prospect" their children will be able to do the same.
When the clinic was on the verge of closure, the town desperately rallied to buy it.
They don't know the mechanics of how treasury bonds are bought and sold 鈥 they just know that there's a treasury bond market and they need to get some dollars from that.
He admits the past year has seen some big changes, like Mac's arrival and buying his first home with fianc茅e Aimei Melvin.
Andy Hacking, 61, said he bought the RAF uniform about five years ago in a shop in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, and discovered the letter in a pocket with a post mark dated 17 December 1945.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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