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buy
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[ verb ] obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
Synonyms Examples : "The family purchased a new car" "The conglomerate acquired a new company" "She buys for the big department store" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Give generously when you buy candy today for the Brain Research_Foundation . (The Providence Journal,...)F._Morris_Cochran , university vice_president and business manager , said the house has been bought to provide rental housing for faculty families , particularly for those here for a limited time . (The Dallas Morning News,...)For many reasons , the demand to buy shares in the Dallas-headquartered company was tremendous . Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended_up with 25 , and customers who had put_in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many . (Los Angeles Times,...)It was a_level at which some of the investors standing on the sidelines were thought likely to buy the pivotal issues represented in the averages . |
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[ verb ] (law) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
Synonyms Examples "This judge can be bought" Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Above_all , do n't set_up extravagant fringe_benefits just to buy employee good_will . (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)In a society where everything is for_sale , Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought . |
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[ verb ] acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
Examples "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work" Related terms |
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[ noun ] an advantageous purchase
Examples "she got a bargain at the auction" "the stock was a real buy at that price" Related terms |
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