Antonyms for buying out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bahy

Phonetic Transcription : baɪ

Definition of buying 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 :

This could only be done by buying out the trader and getting the appointment.
Extract from : « Forty Years Among the Indians » by Daniel W. Jones

And then buying out the Government to keep himself from being punished!
Extract from : « The Moneychangers » by Upton Sinclair

Cobbett, who saw them rise, reviled the stockjobbers who were buying out the old families.
Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen

So far it seems to be the buying out of existing lumber concerns.
Extract from : « The Boss of Wind River » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

In buying out the Maltese Cross, Roosevelt had bought only cattle and horses; not buildings or land.
Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.

I won their gratitude by buying out all the hogs at the lump sum of sixteen pennies, which was rather above latest quotations.
Extract from : « A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

One of these days you will be buying out John Carrington on your own terms.
Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 » by Various

Ralegh added to the estate by buying out leases with his own money, and by the purchase of several adjacent properties.
Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing

He had an idea of buying out the steamer on which Major Billcord had caused his discharge.
Extract from : « All Adrift » by Oliver Optic

But she is greatly interested in certain shops that she is buying out, and especially in her visits to her tailor.
Extract from : « Confidence » by Henry James

Synonyms for buying out

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