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buy verb ( PAY FOR )
/baɪ/ v (bought, bought) Definition
[I or T] to get something by paying money for it
Eventually she had saved enough money to buy a small car.
[+ two objects] He bought his mother some flowers/He bought some flowers for his mother.
There are more people buying at this time of the year so prices are high.
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.
I bought my camera from/informal off a friend of mine.
buy sb's silence
to pay someone, or do something for someone, so that they do not tell anyone something which they know about and which you want to remain secret
What will we have to do to buy her silence?
(Definition of buy verb (PAY FOR) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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