英语词汇“buy off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To pay (a person) to give up a claim, a course of action, etc., esp. in a way regarded as dishonest or underhand; to remove or get rid of (a person's claim, opposition, or interference) by payment or bribery. Also figurative.

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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

society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > pay to be rid of

outbuyc1300

to buy out1598

redeem1705

to buy off1851

1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxxiv. sig. G4^v One whom no rate can buy off from the least piece of his freedome.

1746 H. Winder Crit. & Chronol. Hist. Rise Knowl. II. xviii. 280 He also..went to meet the Scythians that had invaded Asia, and bought them off, so that they marched no further.

1851 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. (1878) i. iv. 89 Buying off the Prince's claim for the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall.

1865 R. C. Trench Gustavus Adolphus ii. 65 To buy off the presence of troops by enormous gifts to their captains.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. ix. 408 Gruffydd was perhaps bought off in this way.

1939 Investig. of Un-Amer. Propaganda Activities in Hearings before Special Comm. Un-Amer. Activities (U.S. House of Representatives, 76th Congress, 1st Sess.) VIII. 6564 The counsel began by brazenly trying to buy them off with personal cash gifts.

1969 Times 21 Oct. 11/1 Their spokesman says that Lord Robens cannot buy off their claim for shorter hours by meeting their wage demand in full.

2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 July 47/1 Narco-traffickers were buying off hundreds of police chiefs, judges and other officials.

2. transitive. To release (a person) from military service by payment. Often reflexive. Now chiefly historical.

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1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 19 Too commonly these Press-masters, Press those who are abler to buy themselves off, than able to make fit Soldiers to serve their King and Countrey.

1786 Arminian Mag. Sept. 485 He also enlisted in the Train of Artillery, and served for a time, till his mother bought him off.

1859 Bath Chron. 27 Oct. 7/4 He enlisted as a youthful freak, and seems to have been under the impression that his friends would buy him off.

1865 J. A. Horner Edgar Akeroyd i. 2 He..enlisted as a private soldier and served in various parts of the world for four or five years. At the end of that time he bought himself off and went to Russia.

1900 A. W. à Beckett London at End of Cent. xx. 177 He begs his father to buy him off when he finds his barrack life rougher than he anticipated.

2011 J. Büssow Hamidian Palestine x. 488 The conscription measures often met with much resistance. Members of wealthy families mostly bought themselves off.

单词	buy off
释义	> as lemmas to buy off to buy off 1. transitive. To pay (a person) to give up a claim, a course of action, etc., esp. in a way regarded as dishonest or underhand; to remove or get rid of (a person's claim, opposition, or interference) by payment or bribery. Also figurative. 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 society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > pay to be rid of outbuyc1300 to buy out1598 redeem1705 to buy off1851 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxxiv. sig. G4^v One whom no rate can buy off from the least piece of his freedome. 1746 H. Winder Crit. & Chronol. Hist. Rise Knowl. II. xviii. 280 He also..went to meet the Scythians that had invaded Asia, and bought them off, so that they marched no further. 1851 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. (1878) i. iv. 89 Buying off the Prince's claim for the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall. 1865 R. C. Trench Gustavus Adolphus ii. 65 To buy off the presence of troops by enormous gifts to their captains. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. ix. 408 Gruffydd was perhaps bought off in this way. 1939 Investig. of Un-Amer. Propaganda Activities in Hearings before Special Comm. Un-Amer. Activities (U.S. House of Representatives, 76th Congress, 1st Sess.) VIII. 6564 The counsel began by brazenly trying to buy them off with personal cash gifts. 1969 Times 21 Oct. 11/1 Their spokesman says that Lord Robens cannot buy off their claim for shorter hours by meeting their wage demand in full. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 July 47/1 Narco-traffickers were buying off hundreds of police chiefs, judges and other officials. 2. transitive. To release (a person) from military service by payment. Often reflexive. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 19 Too commonly these Press-masters, Press those who are abler to buy themselves off, than able to make fit Soldiers to serve their King and Countrey. 1786 Arminian Mag. Sept. 485 He also enlisted in the Train of Artillery, and served for a time, till his mother bought him off. 1859 Bath Chron. 27 Oct. 7/4 He enlisted as a youthful freak, and seems to have been under the impression that his friends would buy him off. 1865 J. A. Horner Edgar Akeroyd i. 2 He..enlisted as a private soldier and served in various parts of the world for four or five years. At the end of that time he bought himself off and went to Russia. 1900 A. W. à Beckett London at End of Cent. xx. 177 He begs his father to buy him off when he finds his barrack life rougher than he anticipated. 2011 J. Büssow Hamidian Palestine x. 488 The conscription measures often met with much resistance. Members of wealthy families mostly bought themselves off. extracted from buyv. to buy off b. In figurative use, as to buy off, fall off, knock off, put off, etc. Cf. also sense A. 6a. ΚΠ α. eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) lxxiv. §2. 122 Buton he him wille fæhðe ofaceapian. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 196^v Þis stoon warneþ of venour as electrum doþ and putteþ of diuers dredes and feres. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxiv. 150 The kynge bought of sir Thomas Hallande,..and therle of Tankernyll, and payed for them twentie thousande nobles. β. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 170 With fayre wordes [he] put them off for that tyme.1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxxiv. sig. G4^v One whom no rate can buy off from the least piece of his freedome.1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 268 They will fall off from what they have promised.1707 W. Funnell Voy. round World ix. 259 A small matter of Money will buy off a great Fault.1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. vii. 85 I mean it to be love, and I'm not going to be put off by Serjeant Bluestone.1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant xiv. 203 By the time the real weather comes along everybody has guessed wrong and knocked the market off a cent or two.1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks i. 25 You have to buy him off with a scrap of dole.1964 R. Gover Here goes Kitten 36 I was not put off by her tactics.2000 R. W. Holder Taunton Cider & Langdons iv. 18 In 1925 the miners were bought off for a time by an agreement for a minimum wage. extracted from offadv.prep.n.adj. < as lemmas
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