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BUY OUT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "buy out" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The men buy out the chairs
Derivation:
buyout (acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock)