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What (who) is buy - definition
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BUY; Buy (disambiguation); Buy, Russia
buy
v. a.
1.
Purchase.
2.
Bribe, corrupt, pervert with money or gain.
buy
(buys, buying, bought)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.
He could not afford to buy a house...
Lizzie bought herself a mountain bike...
I'd like to buy him lunch.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl n, V n n
2.
If you talk about the quantity or standard of goods an amount of money buys, you are referring to the price of the goods or the value of the money.
About ?35,000 buys a habitable house...
If the pound's value is high, British investors will spend their money abroad because the pound will buy them more.
VERB: V n, V n n
3.
If you buy something like time, freedom, or victory, you obtain it but only by offering or giving up something in return.
It was a risky operation, but might buy more time...
For them, affluence was bought at the price of less freedom in their work environment.
VERB: V n, V n
4.
If you say that a person can be bought, you are criticizing the fact that they will give their help or loyalty to someone in return for money.
Once he shows he can be bought, they settle down to a regular payment.
= bribe
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed [disapproval]
5.
If you buy an idea or a theory, you believe and accept it. (INFORMAL)
I'm not buying any of that nonsense.
VERB: V n
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I bought into the popular myth that when I got the new car or the next house, I'd finally be happy.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
6.
If something is a good buy, it is of good quality and not very expensive.
This was still a good buy even at the higher price...
= bargain
N-COUNT: supp N
buy
¦ verb (buys, buying; past and past participle bought)
1. obtain in exchange for payment.
(buy someone out) pay someone to give up an ownership, interest, or share.
(buy oneself out) obtain one's release from the armed services by payment.
(buy something in) withdraw something at auction because it fails to reach the reserve price.
2. get by sacrifice or great effort.
3. informal accept the truth of.
¦ noun informal a purchase.
Phrases
buy the farm N. Amer. informal die.
buy it informal be killed.
buy time delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position.
Origin
OE bycgan, of Gmc origin.
Wikipedia
Buy
Buy may refer to a trade, i.e., an exchange of goods and services via bartering or a monetary purchase.
The term may also refer to:
Examples of use of buy
1. "We are given advice on how to buy organic, buy seasonal, buy local, buy sustainable, buy recycled.
2. Alternatively, Gadi Angel offered to buy out his cousin in a Buy Me Buy You arrangement.
3. Yet the pressure to buy, buy, buy has seldom been more intense.
4. "We‘re led off on this belief that we should buy, buy, buy.
5. But can money buy status or can power buy status?