buy verb - definition in Learners Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary Online

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

Definition

› to get something by paying money for it:

I went to the shop to buy some milk.

They bought their house for £14,000.

[+ two objects] He bought me a camera for my birthday.

(Definition of buy verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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