Definição de 'buy'

Frequência da palavra

buy

(baɪ )

Formas da palavra:plural, 3rd person singular present tense buys , present participle buying , past tense, past participle bought

1. verbo

If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.

He could not afford to buy a house. [VERB noun]

They can now be bought fresh in supermarkets. [VERB noun]

Lizzie bought herself a mountain bike. [V pron-refl n]

I'd like to buy him lunch. [VERB noun noun]

Sinônimos:purchase, get, score [slang], secure Mais sinônimos de buy

2. verbo

If you talk about the quantity or standard of goods an amount of money buys, you are referring to the price of the goods or the value of the money.

About £70,000 buys a habitable house around here. [VERB noun]

If the pound's value is high, British investors will spend their money abroad because the pound will buy them more. [VERB noun noun]

3. verbo

If you buy something like time, freedom, or victory, you obtain it but only by offering or giving up something in return.

It was a risky operation, but might buy more time. [VERB noun]

For them, affluence was bought at the price of less freedom in their work environment. [VERB noun]

4. verbo [usually passive]

If you say that a person can be bought, you are criticizing the fact that they will give their help or loyalty to someone in return for money.

[disapproval]

Once he shows he can be bought, they settle down to a regular payment. [be VERB-ed]

5. verbo

If you buy an idea or a theory, you believe and accept it.

[informal]

I'm not buying any of that nonsense. [VERB noun]

Sinônimos:accept, believe, trust, credit Mais sinônimos de buy

Buy into means the same as buy.

I bought into the popular myth that when I got the next house, I'd finally be happy. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

6. substantivo contável

If something is a good buy, it is of good quality and not very expensive.

This was still a good buy even at the higher price.

Sinônimos:purchase, deal [informal], bargain, acquisition Mais sinônimos de buy

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Frequência da palavra

buy in American

(baɪ ; bī)

verbo transitivoFormas da palavra:bought or ˈbuying

to get by paying or agreeing to pay money or some equivalent; purchase

to get as by an exchange

buy victory with human lives

to be the means of purchasing

all that money can buy

to bribe or hire as by bribing

5. US, Slang

to accept as true, valid, practical, etc.

I can't buy this excuse

6. Theology; Archaic

to redeem

verbo intransitivo

to buy something

to buy merchandise as a buyer

substantivo

the act of buying; a purchase

10.

anything bought or buyable, esp. with reference to its worth as a bargain

a good (or bad) buy

11. US, Informal

something worth the price; bargain

Expressões:

Formas derivadas

buyable (ˈbuyable)

adjectivo

Origem da palavra buy

ME bien < OE bycgan < ? IE base of bow1

Frequência da palavra

buy in British

(baɪ )

verboFormas da palavra:buys, buying or bought (mainly tr)

to acquire by paying or promising to pay a sum of money or the equivalent; purchase

to be capable of purchasing

money can't buy love

to acquire by any exchange or sacrifice

to buy time by equivocation

4. (intransitive)

to act as a buyer

to bribe or corrupt; hire by or as by bribery

6. slang

to accept as true, practical, etc

7. (intransitive; foll by into)

to purchase shares of (a company)

we bought into General Motors

8. (transitive) theology

(esp of Christ) to ransom or redeem (a Christian or the soul of a Christian)

9. have bought it

substantivo

10.

a purchase (often in the phrases good or bad buy)

▶ USAGE The use of off after buy as in I bought this off my neighbour was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable in informal contexts

Origem da palavra buy

Old English bycgan; related to Old Norse byggja to let out, lend, Gothic bugjan to buy

Exemplos de frases que contêm buy

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I buy something to eat on the way home, cook it, watch TV, read a book. Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)In a way...' `They're looking to buy something through an associate of yours. Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)Two and a half billion dollars tended to buy respectability, regardless of how such a fortune was amassed. Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)