buy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: buy	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for buy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buy n an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" Synonym(s): bargain, buy, steal v 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" Synonym(s): buy, purchase Antonym(s): sell make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" Synonym(s): bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms be worth or be capable of buying; "This sum will buy you a ride on the train" acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work" accept as true; "I can't buy this story"
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.