Buy1, v. t.
(bī), v. t. [imp. & p. p. BOUGHT (bawt); p. pr. & vb. n. BUYING.] [O. Eng. bygge, bugge, A-S. bycgan, byggan, to buy, O. Sax. buggean, Goth. bugjan, to buy, sell.]
Sense 1. To acquire the property, right, or title to, by paying a consideration or an equivalent, usually in money; to purchase; to acquire by paying a price to the satisfaction of the seller;—opposed to sell.
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.
Sense 2. To procure by a consideration given, or by something that is deemed worth the thing bought; to procure at a price; as, to buy pleasure with praise; to buy favor with flattery.
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.—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, to give money for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.