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Grammar : Verb
Spell : bahy
Phonetic Transcription : baɪ



Definition of buy out

Origin :
  • Old English bycgan (past tense bohte) "to buy, pay for, acquire; redeem, ransom; procure; get done," from Proto-Germanic *bugjanan (cf. Old Saxon buggjan, Old Norse byggja, Gothic bugjan), of unknown origin, not found outside Germanic.
  • The surviving spelling is southwest England dialect; the word was generally pronounced in Old English and Middle English with a -dg- sound as "budge," or "bidge." Meaning "believe, accept as true" first recorded 1926. Related: Bought; buying. To buy time "prevent further deterioration but make no improvement" is attested from 1946.
  • As in procure : verb acquire, obtain
  • As in ransom : verb pay blackmail money for return of possession or person
  • As in get : verb come into possession of; achieve
Example sentences :
  • Could buy out old Scragmore a thousand times, and never feel it.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • I am going to find Tia Juana if she is above ground and buy out her claim.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Ace » by Douglas Grant
  • I am coming back in September and will buy out your grocery.
  • Extract from : « The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy » by George W. Peck
  • I'm not rich, but I've got enough to buy out any business in Lethbury.
  • Extract from : « The Squirrel Inn » by Frank R. Stockton
  • Do the job up right if you have to buy out every wannigan in town.
  • Extract from : « The Lumberjack Sky Pilot » by Thomas D. Whittles
  • It pays to wait and buy out of season, as much can be saved in this way.
  • Extract from : « Foods and Household Management » by Helen Kinne
  • He was never to be rich enough to buy out his own partners and to be independent of them.
  • Extract from : « The Exiles of Faloo » by Barry Pain
  • An' once we start, we've got to buy out every bakery in the country.
  • Extract from : « The Great American Pie Company » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • Valliant now whispered to me: "We will have to buy out of this."
  • Extract from : « Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French » by Samuel Gibbs French
  • Honeyman begged and borrowed in order to buy out the last man.
  • Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray

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