单词 | buy out |
释义 | buy out 1. phrasal verb If you buy someone out, you buy their share of something such as a company or piece of property that you previously owned together. The bank had to pay to buy out most of the 200 former partners. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He bought his brother out for $17 million. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. See also buyout 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for buy If you buy someone out of the armed forces or another organization, you pay a sum of money so that they can leave before the end of the period they agreed to stay for. Carling eventually bought himself out of the army. [VERB noun PARTICLE] |
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