单词 | to buy over |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe meedOE 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. < as lemmas |
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