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buy

Pronunciation: /baɪ/

The English word “buy” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
  2. To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
  3. To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
  4. To bribe.
  5. To be equivalent to in value.
  6. to accept as true; to believe
  7. To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
  8. To make a bluff, usually a large one.

noun

  1. Something which is bought; a purchase.

Etymology

From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”). Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch…

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