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Buxus sempervirens

buy


Definition: Meaning of, buy in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / bʌɪ /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
buy bought bought
Present Participle Third Person Singular
buying buys
  1. [intransitive and transitive] to get something by paying money for it
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  2. [transitive] if a sum of money buys something, it is enough to pay for it
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  3. buy (somebody) time to deliberately make more time for yourself to do something, for example by delaying a decision
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  4. [transitive] informal to believe something that someone tells you, especially when it is not likely to be true
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  5. [transitive] informal to pay money to someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in order to persuade them to do something dishonest [=  bribe]
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  6. buy something at the cost/expense/price of something to get something that you want, but only by losing something else
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  7. somebody bought it old-fashioned informal someone was killed
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  8. buy off-plan if you buy property off-plan, you buy a house, flat etc that is just starting to be built, with an arrangement to pay part of the cost of the property at that time and the balance when the property is finished
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Singular Plural
buy buys
[countable, usually singular]
  1. something that is worth buying, because it is cheap, good quality, or likely to gain in value
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  2. informal an act of buying something, especially something illegal [=  deal]
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buy used in phrases

  • buy at (verb)
    1. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  • buy back (verb)
    1. buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
  • buy food (verb)
    1. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
  • buy it (verb)
    1. be killed or die;
  • buy the farm (verb)
    1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • buy time (verb)
    1. act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
  • buy-and-bust operation (noun)
    1. an undercover operation by narcotics detectives to catch unsuspecting drug dealers
  • impulse-buy (verb)
    1. buy on impulse without proper reflection
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buy used in phrasal verbs

  • buy in (phrasal verb)
    1. to buy a large quantity of something
  • buy into (phrasal verb)
    1. buy into something business to buy part of a business, especially in order to get control of it
    2. buy into something informal to start to do something that a lot of other people are doing, or to believe something that a lot of other people believe
  • buy off (phrasal verb)
    1. to pay someone to stop threatening you or blackmailing you
  • buy out (phrasal verb)
    1. business to pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together
    2. buy someone out British English to pay money so that someone can leave an organization, especially the armed forces, before the time that they had originally agreed
  • buy up (phrasal verb)
    1. to buy large amounts of something or all of it that is available
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