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单词 to buy over
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to buy over
to buy over
transitive. To gain the support or cooperation of (a person) by means of a payment; to win over by bribery. Also (and in earliest use) with to preceding a noun or phrase indicating the party or cause which a person is induced to join, support, etc.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe
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underorna1325
corrump1387
forbuy1393
hirec1400
wage1461
fee1487
under-arearc1503
bribe1528
grease1528
money1528
corrupt1548
budc1565
to feed with money1567
to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580
sweeten1594
to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598
over-bribe1619
to buy off1629
palter1641
to take off1646
buy1652
overmoneya1661
bub1684
to speak to ——1687
to tickle in the palm1694
daub1699
overbuy1710
touch1752
palm1767
to get at ——1780
fix1790
subsidize1793
sop1837
to buy over1848
backsheesh1850
nobble1856
square1859
hippodrome1866
see1867
boodleize1883
boodle1886
to get to ——1901
reach1906
straighten1923
lubricate1928
to keep (someone) sweet1939
sling1939
to pay off1942
bung1950
1650 M. Nedham tr. P. Grégoire in Case Common-wealth Eng. ii. i. 37 They [sc. Mercenaries] are easily corrupted with Money, and with rewards and promises of better Pay, bought over to any other Party.
1670 M. Medbourne tr. Molière Tartuffe v. vi. 58 I with a little money Will buy him over to do what I please.
1756 Scots Mag. Mar. 155/1 Fearing that several of his friends should desert him, he resolved to buy over as many as he could of the contrary interest.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 630 Attempting to buy over their chiefs?
1877 M. E. Braddon Weavers & Weft 328 He..bought over the lodging-house keeper to his interest.
1961 F. Cali Spanish Arts of Lat. Amer. i. 37 Cortés is said to have bought him over with two thousand gold pesos and an appointment as alcade of Vera Cruz.
2018 T. Ali Uprising in Pakistan iii. 64 The..regime had made various attempts to buy him over, but he had consistently refused and emerged as one of the most principled critics of the dictatorship.
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