0 to get something by paying money for it: --
What will we have to do to buy her silence?
It shouldn't be possible to buy a Senator to vote on issues that are important to you.
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.
There are more people buying at this time of the year so prices are high.
[ + two objects ] He bought his mother some flowers/He bought some flowers for his mother.
2 to be worth/not be worth the price: --
This jacket is a really good buy, at £200.
3 to obtain something by paying money for it: --
He bought some flowers for his girlfriend.
4 to believe that something is true: --
She’ll never buy that story about having to take care of your sick grandmother.
5 an occasion in which you pay less for something than what it is worth, and are therefore pleased: --
Money that had been spent on television and radio advertising was diverted to buy space in the print and outdoor media.
As was mentioned earlier, newcomers who buy supplemental insurance must bear a waiting period, which is expected to discourage moves.
These bids flowed down the chain from customer to supplier until most of the buy bids had filtered to the sellers.
Some books may have been bought for display alone.
Many of those who bought such private pensions have since been found to have been wrongly advised.
It is expressly designed for photocopying, however, so there is no need to buy pupil sets.
People who though not well-educated are practical and enterprising and may well have exercised their right to buy.
The retailers, so they argued, were impeding the government's deflationary policy and were indirectly attacking the buying power of wage-earners.
