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buy

buy: listen to British English pronunciationbuy: listen to American pronunciation /baɪ/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle bought)

Translation

to get something by paying money for it
satın almak
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.
2106
buy into sth phrasal verb
to believe in something
inanmak, itikat etmek, kabul etmek
I don't buy into all that dieting nonsense.
2510
buy sb/sth out phrasal verb
to buy part of a company or building from someone else so that you own all of it
birinin elindekinin hepsini satın almak, bir binanın veya şirketin bir kısmını satın almak
He bought out his partner for £3 million.
256
buy sth up phrasal verb
to quickly buy a lot of something, often all that is available
bir şeyin mevcudunu, tamamını satın almak, kapatmak
Most of the land in the area has been bought up by property developers.
2106
(Definition of buy verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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