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UK
/bˈaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
VERB
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obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
The family purchased a new car
She buys for the big department store
The conglomerate acquired a new company -
acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work -
accept as true
I can't buy this story -
be worth or be capable of buying
This sum will buy you a ride on the train -
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
This judge can be bought
NOUN
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an advantageous purchase
the stock was a real buy at that price
she got a bargain at the auction
How To Use buy In A Sentence
- It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
- Goldman Sachs JB Were analyst Marcus Curley, who has a "buy" rating on the shares, forecasts a price of NZ$6. 20 to NZ$6. 40 if the acquirer is another casino company. The Blind Bet for Sky City
- When the tax credit was in place, a person could buy a house for $8,000 down (the bluebook value of a 2005 Dodge Caravan). Tom Silva: Why Should We Care About Housing?
- Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times
- Elsewhere, it may be acceptable for shop assistants to flatter and cajole you into buying anything, irrespective of whether it suits you.
- Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades? Times, Sunday Times
- The government also has a fairly loose definition of what constitutes a first-time homebuyer, which is defined as someone who has no "present interest" in a main home during a two-year period prior to the date of acquisition of the new home. Five Penalty-Free IRA Withdrawals
- Apparently some divers end up having to buy extra suitcases to carry all the goodies home.
