buy
Other forms: bought; buying; buys
When you buy something, you pay money in order to own or obtain it. You might buy your mom a big bouquet of flowers for her birthday.
When you buy furniture, food, a car, or candy, you purchase it, exchanging a certain amount of money for it, and when you call something "a buy" or "a steal," it's a real bargain. When you say, "She said she won the lottery, but I don't buy it," you mean that you don't accept that fact as the truth. Even more colloquially, to buy it can also mean "to be killed."
Definitions of buy
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obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction“She buys for the big department store”
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synonyms:
purchase
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Antonyms:
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sell
exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
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sell
be sold at a certain price or in a certain way
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buy back, repurchase
buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
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take
buy, select
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get
purchase
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subscribe, subscribe to, take
receive or obtain regularly
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buy out, buy up, take over
take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
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pick up
buy casually or spontaneously
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buy food, take out
purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
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impulse-buy
buy on impulse without proper reflection
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sell
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be worth or be capable of buying
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make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
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acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
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an advantageous purchase“the stock was a real buy at that price”
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song
a very small sum
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travel bargain
a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes)
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type of:
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purchase
something acquired by purchase
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song
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accept as true“I can't buy this story”
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type of:
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believe
accept as true; take to be true
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believe
Pronunciation
US
/baɪ/
UK
/baɪ/
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