Antonyms for buys out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bahy
Phonetic Transcription : baɪ


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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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