buyverb
uk/baɪ/us/baɪ/bought, boughtbuy verb (PAY FOR)
A1 [ I or T ] to get something by paying money for it:
Eventually she had saved enough money to buy a small car.
[ + two objects ] He bought his mother some flowers/He bought some flowers for his mother.
There are more people buying at this time of the year so prices are high.
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.
I bought my camera from a friend of mine.
buy sb's silence
to pay someone or do something for someone, so that that person does not tell anyone something that they know about and that you want to remain secret:
What will we have to do to buy her silence?
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- I'll buy some paperbacks at the airport.
- We stopped at some nearby shops to buy some food.
- They took out a £40,000 mortgage to buy the house.
- I bought a cheese roll for lunch.
- She buys all the latest fashion magazines.
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Buying
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bid
- bidding war
- bite
- brand loyalty
- bulk-buy
- import
- invest
- kick the tires idiom
- load up on sth
- money-off
- on the slate idiom
- order form
- order sth in
- send out for sth
- shop around
- shopaholic
- shopping
- stock up
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Paying money
Revealing secrets & becoming known
buy verb (BELIEVE)
[ T ] informal to believe that something is true:
She'll never buy that story about you getting lost!
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Believing
- article of faith
- ascribe sth to sb
- belief
- believe
- believe in sth
- credit
- evidently
- feel
- feel it in your bones idiom
- give sb the benefit of the doubt idiom
- gospel
- hold
- incline to/towards sth
- see sth in sb/sth
- seeing is believing idiom
- self-delusion
- stock
- swear by sth
- take sb's word for it idiom
- word
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Idiom(s)
buy the farm
buy time
sb has bought it
Phrasal verb(s)
buy sth in
buy into sth
buy sb off
buy sb out
buy yourself out
buy sth up
buynoun
uk/baɪ/us/baɪ/a good/bad buy
to be worth/not be worth the price:
This jacket is a really good buy, at £200.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Products & producers
- begetter
- boondoggle
- brand
- by-product
- cash crop
- commodity
- export
- generic
- generically
- goods-producing
- haberdashery
- ironmonger
- production
- purchase
- seller
- shopping
- spin-off
- stock
- supply side
- unit
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