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Buy out   /baɪ aʊt/   Listen
verb
Buy  v. t.  (past & past part. bought; pres. part. buying)  
1.
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; opposed to sell. "Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries."
2.
To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. "Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."
To buy again. See Againbuy. (Obs.)
To buy off.
(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.
To buy out
(a)
To buy off, or detach from.
(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.
To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.
To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.
To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.



buy-out, buy out  v.  To take over ownership of; of corporations and companies.
Synonyms: take over, buy up.






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"Buy out" Quotes from Famous Books



... mercantile venture was not successful. Berry was drinking and loafing, and Lincoln, who did not work as faithfully for himself as for another, was usually reading or telling stories. So when a couple of strangers, Trent by name, offered to buy out the store, the offer was accepted and more promissory notes changed hands. About the time these last notes came due, the Trent brothers disappeared between two days. Then ...
— The Life of Abraham Lincoln • Henry Ketcham

... now it was still possible to buy out the Company, but it was supposed that it would cost so much that it was generally ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... then," replied the triumphant Scraggs, "if you won't sell, then buy out my interest an' rid my ship o' this ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne

... him if he likes, while Ned is away. But papa won't be here. He has quite decided, I think, to leave Burnet and make his home for the future with us in the High Valley. Three different physicians have already offered to buy out his practice, and it is arranged that Dorry shall rent the old house of him, and the furniture too, except the books and a few special things which papa wishes to keep. He is going to write to you about the building of what he is pleased to call 'a separate shanty;' but please ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

... the leaders; they are hungry for the fleshpots. If they had the opportunities, we should be served as they are now. That's the chief trouble,—nobody really cares to make the sacrifices. And that is why this row will be ended on the old terms: the rich will buy out the leaders. Better times will come, and we shall all settle down to the same old game of grab on the same old basis. But you," Sommers turned on the sauntering blue-eyed fellow, "people like you are the ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick


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