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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)

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