buy sb/sth out

— Phrasal Verb with buy

/baɪ/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle bought)

Definition

› to buy part of a company or building from someone else so that you own all of it: He bought out his partner for £3 million.

(Definition of buy sb/sth out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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