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verb

Buy v. t. (past & past part. bought; pres. part. buying)

1.

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; opposed to sell. "Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries."

2.

To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. "Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."

To buy again. See Againbuy. (Obs.)

To buy off.

(a)

To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience.

(b)

To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.

To buy out

(a)

To buy off, or detach from.

(b)

To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B.

(c)

To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.

To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.

To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.

To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

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"Buy in" Quotes from Famous Books

... longer assemble on the pavement, for the Exchange has thrown open to them its Long Room. Any one who can pay $50 a year for a ticket of admission, and who has brains and nerve enough to enter upon the struggle, can sell or buy in the Long Room. This is better than standing in the street, exposed to the weather, and moreover gives a certain respectability to the "operator," although he may carry his sole capital in his head, and his office ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... workmanship; and here they challenged wide attention. You cannot train any one properly, unless you cultivate the fancy, and allow fair scope to the affections. You cannot govern men on a principle of averages; and to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market is not the summum bonum of life. You cannot treat the working man fairly unless, in dealing with his wrongs and his delusions, you take equally into account the simplicity and tenacity of his nature, arising partly from limited knowledge, but more ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... next to impossible to procure. Here it is that the heart of the mature collector begins to beat. He is determined to have a perfect collection. Nothing shall escape him in the way of printed franks on letters. Now, nineteen-twentieths of his assortment he can buy in the gross, without trouble or great expense; but the last twentieth demands personal care and attention, and the hunting up of old family letters, and the haunting of great dealers' shops, and peeping through dirty ...

— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang

... commonplace enough to suggest nothing of the depth of subtlety which really actuated them. There was even an absurd moment which found him in a candy-store purchasing several pounds of the most sickly candy he could buy in so rough a place as ...

— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum

... to ask what bridies were like. And he could not dress up and be a guiser, could he, mother, for the guisers sang a song, and he did not know the words? What a pity they could not get bridies to buy in London, and learn the song and sing it. But of course they could not! ("Elspeth, if you tumble off the fender ...

— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie

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