"buy off" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buys off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buying off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "buy<,,bought> off"
      },
      "expansion": "buy off (third-person singular simple present buys off, present participle buying off, simple past and past participle bought off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Corruption",
          "orig": "en:Corruption",
          "parents": [
            "Crime",
            "Politics",
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1742, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time, Volume 8, page 166",
          "text": "Then, Sir, as to Bribery and Corruption at Elections ... every Elector has a natural Byass to vote for one Man rather than another, and every Elector will vote according to his natural Byass, if he is not bought off: whoever endeavours to buy him off, must certainly come up to his Price, and this Price will be higher or lower, according to the Elector's Honour and Circumstances, and the natural Byass he has for the other Candidate. A great many Men may be perhaps bought off with 100 or 1000 Guineas, who, if half that sum were offered, would spurn it away with an honest Disdain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range",
          "text": "You like to hear about gold.\nA king filled his prison room\nAs full as the room could hold\nTo the top of his reach on the wall\nWith every known shape of the stuff.\n’Twas to buy himself off his doom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service."
      ],
      "id": "en-buy_off-en-verb-eme~DkEa",
      "links": [
        [
          "pay off",
          "pay off"
        ],
        [
          "corrupt",
          "corrupt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "pay off",
          "word": "afkopen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "pay off",
          "word": "omkopen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pay off",
          "word": "essere comprato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otkupatʹsja",
          "sense": "pay off",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "откупаться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "pay off",
          "word": "rüşvet vermek"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money."
      ],
      "id": "en-buy_off-en-verb-1NKF36V2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "buy out"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buy off"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Corruption"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buys off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buying off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bought off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "buy<,,bought> off"
      },
      "expansion": "buy off (third-person singular simple present buys off, present participle buying off, simple past and past participle bought off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1742, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The history and proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the present time, Volume 8, page 166",
          "text": "Then, Sir, as to Bribery and Corruption at Elections ... every Elector has a natural Byass to vote for one Man rather than another, and every Elector will vote according to his natural Byass, if he is not bought off: whoever endeavours to buy him off, must certainly come up to his Price, and this Price will be higher or lower, according to the Elector's Honour and Circumstances, and the natural Byass he has for the other Candidate. A great many Men may be perhaps bought off with 100 or 1000 Guineas, who, if half that sum were offered, would spurn it away with an honest Disdain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range",
          "text": "You like to hear about gold.\nA king filled his prison room\nAs full as the room could hold\nTo the top of his reach on the wall\nWith every known shape of the stuff.\n’Twas to buy himself off his doom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pay off",
          "pay off"
        ],
        [
          "corrupt",
          "corrupt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "buy out"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "pay off",
      "word": "afkopen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "pay off",
      "word": "omkopen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pay off",
      "word": "essere comprato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otkupatʹsja",
      "sense": "pay off",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "откупаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "pay off",
      "word": "rüşvet vermek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buy off"
}