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[ verb ] take over ownership of; of corporations and companies

Synonyms

take_over buy_up

Used in print

(Los Angeles Times,...)

He called the Cuban tractor plan an outright blackmail action , and noted that in war `` you can n't buy yourself out and that 's what we 're trying to do '' .

(Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)

Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought_out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass_Valley .

Related terms

buy buyout

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