buy sb out
— phrasal verb with buy uk/baɪ/us/baɪ/verb bought, bought
to buy a part of a company or building from someone else so that you own all of it:
Allied Chemicals have been trying to buy out their competitor's share in the target company.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Mergers & acquisitions
- absorb
- acquisitive
- amalgamation
- buy into sth
- buyout
- denationalize
- hive
- leverage
- merger
- monopolize
- monopoly
- oligopoly
- parent
- spin
- subsidiary
- suitor
- syndicate
- take (sth) over
- takeover
- white knight
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