buy
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)bought, buys, buying
- obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction“The family purchased a new car”“The conglomerate acquired a new company”“She buys for the big department store”Synonyms: purchaseOpposite sellMore general get, acquireMore specific take over, pick up, subscribe, take, buy back, get, take out, impulse-buyInvolves choose, pay
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence“This judge can be bought”Synonyms: bribecorruptgrease one's palmsMore general payMore specific buy off, sop
- be worth or be capable of buying“This sum will buy you a ride on the train”More general get, acquireSimilar purchase
- acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange“She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work”More general get, acquire
- accept as true“I can't buy this story”More general believe
Noun (1)buys
- an advantageous purchase“she got a bargain at the auction”“the stock was a real buy at that price”Synonyms: bargainstealType of purchaseKinds song, travel bargain
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Translations
Verb to obtain something with money
- Spanish
- comprar
- French
- acheter
- German
- kaufen
- Italian
- comprare
- Portuguese
- comprar
- Turkish
- satın almak
- Russian
- покупа́ть pokupátʹ
- Arabic
- اِشْتَرَى ištarā
- Chinese
- 买 mǎi
- Japanese
- 買う kau
36 more languages
- Dutch
- kopen
- Polish
- kupować
- Swedish
- köpa
- Greek
- αγοράζω agorázo
- Korean
- 사다 sada
- Indonesian
- membeli
- Vietnamese
- mua
- Hungarian
- vásárol
- Portuguese (PT)
- comprar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 買 mǎi
- Albanian
- blej
- Breton
- prenañ
- Catalan
- comprar
- Corsican
- cumprà
- Czech
- koupit
- Danish
- købe
- Esperanto
- aĉeti
- Estonian
- ostma
- Finnish
- ostaa
- Georgian
- ყიდვა q̇idva
- Hebrew
- קָנָה kaná
- Icelandic
- kaupa
- Kurdish
- kirîn
- Latvian
- pirkt
- Lithuanian
- pirkti
- Malagasy
- mividy
- Norwegian
- kjøpe
- Romanian
- cumpăra
- Scottish Gaelic
- ceannaich
- Serbo-Croatian
- kupiti
- Slovak
- kúpiť
- Slovenian
- kupiti
- Swahili
- nunua
- Walloon
- atchter
- Welsh
- prynu
- Yiddish
- קויפֿן koyfn
Verb to accept as true
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.
1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; — opposed to sell.
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.— B. Franklin.
2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.— Prov. xxiii. 23.
To buy again. See Againbuy. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer — To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. — To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. William Shakespeare (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. — To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. — To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. — To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.
To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
I will buy with you, sell with you.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54