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  • 21buy up — buy all of a product or all the shares in a company    At closing time, Abe comes in and buys up the last shares …

    English idioms

  • 22buy|er — «BY uhr», noun. 1. a person who buys; a purchaser. SYNONYM(S): customer, patron. 2. a person whose work is buying goods for a department store or other business; purchasing agent …

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  • 23Buy — To purchase an asset; taking a long position. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. buy buy 1 [baɪ] verb bought PTandPP [bɔt ǁ bɒːt] [transitive] 1 …

    Financial and business terms

  • 24buy — To purchase an asset; taking a long position. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary bid (or buy) An offer to buy a specific quantity of a commodity at a stated price. The price that the market participants are willing to pay. Chicago Mercantile Exchange …

    Financial and business terms

  • 25buy — buy1 [ baı ] (past tense and past participle bought [ bɔt ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to get something by paying money for it: I need to buy some new clothes. Now you can buy and sell shares on the Internet. Tickets can be bought …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 26buy — buy1 W1S1 [baı] v past tense and past participle bought [bo:t US bo:t] [: Old English; Origin: bycgan] 1.) a) [I and T] to get something by paying money for it ≠ ↑sell ▪ Where did you buy that dress? ▪ Ricky showed her the painting he d bought… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 27buy — I UK [baɪ] / US verb Word forms buy : present tense I/you/we/they buy he/she/it buys present participle buying past tense bought UK [bɔːt] / US [bɔt] past participle bought *** 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to get something by paying money for… …

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  • 28buy — buyable, adj. /buy/, v., bought, buying, n. v.t. 1. to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, esp. in money; purchase. 2. to acquire by exchange or concession: to buy favor with flattery. 3. to… …

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  • 29buy in — verb amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use let s stock coffee as long as prices are low • Syn: ↑stock, ↑stock up • Derivationally related forms: ↑stock (for: ↑stock), ↑ …

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  • 30buy up — verb take over ownership of; of corporations and companies (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑take over, ↑buy out • Derivationally related forms: ↑buyout (for: ↑buy out), ↑takeover …

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