Hypertext Webster Gateway: "buy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Buy \Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Buying}.] [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}. [Obs.] --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. --Shak.
(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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Buy \Buy\, v. i.
To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

I will buy with you, sell with you. --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

buy
n : an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the
auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn:
{bargain}, {steal}]
v 1: 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" [syn: {purchase}] [ant: {sell}]
2: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or
influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: {bribe}, {corrupt}]
3: acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to
buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"
4: accept as true: "I can't buy this story"
5: be worth or be capable of buying; "This sum will buy you a
ride on the train"


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