buy : Idioms & Phrases

• verb do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  shop; patronize; patronise; sponsor; shop at; frequent.
  

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• verb buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
  repurchase.
  
  • He bought back the house that his father sold years ago

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• verb purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
  take out.
  

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• verb amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
  stock up; stock.
  
  • let's stock coffee as long as prices are low

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• verb buy stocks or shares of a company
  

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• verb be killed or die;
  pip out.
  

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• verb pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
  pay off.
  

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• verb take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
  buy out; take over.
  

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• verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  decease; give-up the ghost; pop off; perish; die; snuff it; choke; drop dead; pass away; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; kick the bucket; conk; cash in one's chips.
  
  • She died from cancer
  • The children perished in the fire
  • The patient went peacefully
  • The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

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• verb act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
  

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• verb take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
  buy out; take over.
  

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• noun an undercover operation by narcotics detectives to catch unsuspecting drug dealers
  

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• noun buying goods to be shipped through the mail
  catalog buying.
  

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Dear"-bought` adjective

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1. Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

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• verb buy on impulse without proper reflection
  

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• noun a system for paying for goods by installments
  installment plan; time plan.
  

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• noun buying goods to be shipped through the mail
  catalog buying.
  

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• adjective satellite purchased; not homemade
  boughten.
  
  • my boughten clothes
  • a store-bought dress

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• . See Againbuy. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913

• to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.

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• . (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.

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

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• (a) To buy off, or detach from. Shak. (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.

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

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