Antonyms for buys out
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : baɪ |
- abandon
- avoid
- calm
- confine
- depart
- disallow
- discourage
- dissuade
- drop
- fail
- forfeit
- free
- give
- give away
- give in
- give up
- harm
- hinder
- hold
- hurt
- imprison
- incarcerate
- keep
- leave
- let go
- limit
- lose
- misconstrue
- mismanage
- miss
- misunderstand
- offer
- overtake
- overthrow
- pass
- please
- prevent
- push
- refuse
- reject
- release
- relinquish
- repel
- repress
- repulse
- restrain
- sell
- soothe
- spend
- stop
- surrender
- throw away
- understand
- yield
Definition of buys 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
- A man's sure to get the worst of it when he buys out of a pack.
- Extract from : « A Yankee from the West » by Opie Read
- If she has no hope of one in reversion, she buys out of her little earnings a pearl at a time, till she has completed a necklace.
- Extract from : « The Diary of an Ennuye » by Anna Brownell Jameson
Synonyms for buys out
- access
- accomplish
- acquire
- annex
- appropriate
- attain
- bag
- bring
- bring around
- bring in
- build up
- buy
- buy freedom of
- buy into
- buy off
- buy out
- buy up
- capture
- cash in on
- chalk up
- clean up
- clear
- come by
- compass
- cop
- corral
- deliver
- draw
- earn
- educe
- effect
- elicit
- emancipate
- evoke
- extort
- extract
- extricate
- fetch
- find
- free
- gain
- get
- get hands on
- get hold of
- glean
- grab
- have
- hustle
- induce
- inherit
- land
- latch on to
- lay hands on
- liberate
- lock up
- make
- make a buy
- make a haul
- make a killing
- manage to get
- manumit
- net
- obtain
- obtain release of
- parlay
- pay for release of
- persuade
- pick up
- prevail upon
- procure
- promote
- pull
- purchase
- rack up
- realize
- reap
- receive
- recover
- redeem
- regain
- release
- reprise
- repurchase
- rescue
- save
- score
- secure
- set free
- snag
- snap up
- snowball
- solicit
- succeed to
- take
- unchain
- unfetter
- wangle
- win
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