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overˈbuy, v.
[over- 26, 23, 4, 11.]
1.
†a. trans. To buy at too high a price; to pay too much for. Obs.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. ix. (1869) 180 If men made of you saale, mihte no man livinge ouerbigge yow, ne loue yow to michel. 1530Palsgr. 647/2, I overbye, I bye a thynge above the price it is worthe. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. xxxiii. (1840) 239 Conceiving so convenient a purchase could not be over-bought. 1662Petty Taxes 21 The farmer for haste is forced to under-sell his corn, and the King..is forced to overbuy his provisions. 1700Dryden Ep. to J. Driden 138 And he, when want requires, is truly wise, Who slights not foreign aid, nor over-buys.
b. To buy goods at a (wholesale) price beyond the means of (a competitor).
1886Hardy Mayor Casterbr. II. iii. 36 We'll under-sell him, and over-buy him, and so snuff him out.
2. refl. and intr. To buy beyond one's means, or to too great an extent. Also, of a wholesaler or retailer: to buy goods, materials, etc., in excess of those needed; to accumulate surplus stock. See also overbought ppl. a.
1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman vi. (1841) I. 37 If the tradesman overbuys himself, the payments perhaps come due too soon for him, the goods not being sold. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 18/8 The high level of delinquencies in Maryland results from several conditions—business recession, unemployment, ‘overbuying’. 1950Times 11 Mar. 9/7 Last year the Government overbought imported frozen fish and now fresh fish was being sold at a very low price. 1966J. M. Shewan in Proc. Internat. Symp. Food Irrad. (Internat. Atomic Energy Agency) 496 Merchants, both wholesalers and retailers, frequently ‘over-buy’, particularly when supplies are plentiful and prices cheap.
†3. To buy off; to procure the release of (any one) by payment. Obs.
15..Priests of Peblis in Pinkerton Scot. Poems Repr. I. 12 The theif ful weill he wil himself overby; Quhen the leill man into the lack wil ly.
†4. To buy over to one's side. Obs.
1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1736) III. 169 The Emperor had no Money..to bestow upon Theodecta, by which they might have over-bought the Empress. |