Buy /(bī)/

Buy

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Bought; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — B. Franklin.
  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.
    — Prov. xxiii. 23.

Phrases & Compounds
To buy again
See Againbuy.
To buy off
To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience.
To buy out
To buy off, or detach from.
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
to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

Buy

v. i.
  1. To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
    I will buy with you, sell with you.